American States Insurance v. State

Claimants bring this action to recover on their respective subrogation claims for damages arising out of an automobile collision.

On August 29, 1955, one Mike DeSimone, a sixteen year old inmate of the Savanna Encampment of the St. Charles Boys Reformatory, and another inmate, Ronald Chiquet, also sixteen years of age, escaped, took unlawful possession of a Pontiac automobile belonging to Harold Schroeder at Savanna, Illinois, and, while being pursued by the police, collided with a parked Oldsmobile automobile owned by Dr. L. B. Hussey in Savanna, causing damages to both vehicles, which were…