Jones v. Auto Owners Insurance Company

CATES, Judge.

This cause was submitted here on March 18, 1965.

The appellant assigns error in the trial judge’s directing the jury to return a verdict for the appellee.

The appellant had a policy issued to him by the appellee which, as the parties stipulated, provided in pertinent part:

“To pay for loss by robbery of money, securities, merchandise, * * * within the premises.

“(f) ROBBERY. The word ‘robbery’ means the taking of insured property (1) by violence inflicted upon a messenger or a custodian; (2) by putting him in fear of violence; (3) by any overt felonious act committed in his presence…