Hicks v. Williams

PRESIDING JUSTICE KARNS

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs, grain producers in Illinois, brought an action in the circuit court of Jackson County against the director, assistant director, officers and employees of the Illinois Department of Agriculture and Aetna Insurance Company for damages allegedly sustained when a grain elevator became insolvent. We affirmed the trial court’s dismissal of the action against Aetna Insurance Company. (See Hicks v. Aetna Insurance Co. (1981), 97 Ill. App. 3d 828, 423 N.E.2d 584.) The remaining defendants moved to strike the second amended complaint…