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Kline Bros. & Co., Appellant, v. The Hanover Fire Insurance Company of the City of New York, Respondent.
    
      Kline Bros. & Co. v. Hanover F. Ins. Co. of N. Y., 163 App. Div. 848, affirmed.
    (Argued April 2, 1917;
    decided April 24, 1917.)
    Appeal from a judgment of the - Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered May 22, 1914, affirming a judgment in favor of defendant entered upon a verdict directed by the court in an action upon a policy of fire insurance. The verdict was directed on the stated ground that the assured had violated the provisions of the policy requiring that it should take, keep and produce a complete itemized inventory of stock on hand and should keep a set of books which should clearly and plainly present a complete record of business transactions, all of which should be securely locked in a fireproof safe at night.
    
      Frederick M. Czaki and Marion Erwin for appellant.
    
      Robert Louis Hoguet, Theodore A. Hammond and Ralph A. Newman for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Hiscock, Ch. J., Chase, Crane and Andrews, JJ. Dissenting: Collin, Cardozo and Pound, JJ.