Lancashire Insurance v. Lyon
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action of assumpsit. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Elbridge Haneoy, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1905.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
We are obliged to reverse this judgment and remand this cause, because the record shows that no competent evidence of the amount of the damages went to the jury, and the verdict must therefore have been based on the insufficient ground of a mere guess, or on one of the equally insufficient grounds, of evidence, altogether incompetent for the purpose of establishing the amount of damages, and admissible only for other purposes, or of evidence which was stricken out, or of a misunderstanding of what was actually testified.
Appellee insists that the introduction of the policy and “proofs of loss”…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Continental Life Insurance v. RogersIllinois Supreme Court · 1887
- Knickerbocker Insurance v. GouldIllinois Supreme Court · 1875
- Illinois Fire Insurance v. StantonIllinois Supreme Court · 1870
- Lycoming Fire Insurance v. RubinIllinois Supreme Court · 1875
- Concordia Fire Insurance v. BowenAppellate Court of Illinois · 1905
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