Court Opinion

ID: 9447408
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 22:34:26.301079+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:31:01.819957
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i JONES, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
It takes, for me, a good deal of doing, to see enough evidence to permit the drawing of an inference that the appellant had sustained an inventory loss. If this difficulty be surmounted, then it appears to the majority that because a roof hatch was unlocked the inference can be drawn that somebody from the inside carried the goods outside. To me it seems equally plausible that somebody from the outside went in for the goods. None of the elements of speculation and conjecture are taken from the case so as *709to make a jury question, as I view it, by saying that the hatch cover had been opened from the inside. I do not believe it ought to be said that it was error for the distinct court to direct a verdict for the insurance company. I would affirm its judgment.