Niagara Fire Ins. Co. v. Bryan & Hewgley, Inc

SIMONS, Circuit Judge.

The appellant complains of a judgment ■against it on a policy issued by it to the appellee and covering damages by windstorm. Its defenses in the court below were that the terms of the policy had been violated by the insured in respect to inventories, the keeping of books and records by which a loss could be verified, the lack of evidence to support the judgment, the finding by the jury of bad faith in failure to timely pay the loss under Tennessee law and so subjecting it to a penalty, and •errors in the admission of evidence.

The policy was not the usual contract of…