Kirby v. Springfield Fire Insurance

WILL, Judge.

Plaintiff, an Illinois citizen, in his capacity as trustee, demands $14,000 from defendant, a Massachusetts corporation which has its principal place of business in that state. His complaint, originally filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County and removed by the insurer to this Court, avers that on various dates during 1960 a total of 49 cows and calves insured by defendant were stolen from a farm in McHenry County, Illinois, which is part of the corpus of the trust, but that defendant refuses to pay the amount of the loss. In its answer, one of the grounds for the insurer’s…