Monahan v. Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance

delivered the .opinion of the court:

This was an action of assumpsit commenced by the appellee against the appellant in the superior court of Cook county upon an insurance policy for $3000 issued by the appellant upon the life of Patrick H. Fay, who died on October 19, 1905. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $3275, upon which verdict the court rendered judgment, and the defendant prosecuted an appeal to the Appellate Court for the First District, where the judgment of the trial court was affirmed, and a fur-' ther appeal has been prosecuted to this court.

The suit was…