Winnesheik Insurance v. Holzgrafe
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Mason county; the Hon. Charles Turner, Judge, presiding. The opinion of the court contains a statement of the case.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Breese
This was a bill in chancery, in the Mason circuit court, exhibited by George H. Holzgrafe, against The Winnesheik Insurance Company, alleging a verbal contract of insurance upon a certain building of complainant, in the town of Havana, in Mason county, to the amount of twenty-two hundred dollars, and the subsequent destruction of the building by fire in the lifetime of the contract.
The bill prays that an account might be taken of complainant’s loss; that the contract be specifically enforced, and that defendants be decreed to pay him the above amount, besides the costs of this suit.
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