Cooper v. Providence Washington Insurance

Lively, PRESIDENT:

S. K. Cooper sued on a standard fire insurance policy covering his stock of goods totally destroyed while the insurance contract was in force. Defendant filed specifications of defense, one of which was that plaintiff was precluded from recovery because of failure to comply with the iron-safe clause in the policy; and to this, plaintiff replied that the agent who solicited and wrote the policy was entirely familiar with the method and manner in which plaintiff kept the records of his business, and expressly, waived the iron-safe clause in the policy, and,…