diff --git a/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/reader/STLReader.cc b/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/reader/STLReader.cc
index 30c6450c..3cf7b8a4 100644
--- a/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/reader/STLReader.cc
+++ b/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/reader/STLReader.cc
@@ -246,12 +246,9 @@ read_stla(const std::string& _filename, BaseImporter& _bi) const
     }
   }
 
-
   fclose(in);
 
-
-  // In general a file has data, there the number of vertices cannot be 0.
-  return _bi.n_vertices() != 0;
+  return true;
 }