Legal Opinion

Grand Lodge Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen v. Orrell

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided December 16, 1903PublishedCited by 21 opinions

Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Fourth District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Jackson county; the Hon. Joseph P. Robarts, Judge, presiding. '

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Boggs

The circuit court of Jackson county, on a trial before the court and a jury, awarded the appellee a judgment in the sum of <¡¡52152.50 against the appellant lodge on a beneficiary certificate, and on appeal to the Appellate Court for the Fourth District the judgment was affirmed. The case comes into this court on a further appeal of the appellant lodge.

The assignment as for error that- the Appellate Court erred in not reversing the judgment of the circuit court because that court erroneously admitted testimony in behalf of the appellee cannot be considered, for the reason such complaints were…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Railway Passenger & Freight Conductors' Mutual Aid & Benefit Ass'n v. LoomisIllinois Supreme Court · 1892
  2. Indiana Millers' Mutual Fire Ins. v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1897
  3. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. RobinsonIllinois Supreme Court · 1881

3Cited by21 opinions

  1. Western Indemnity Co. v. CorderCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1923
  2. Hurley v. Bankers Life Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1924
  3. Marchant v. New York Life InsuranceCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1930
  4. Storwick v. Reliance Life InsuranceWashington Supreme Court · 1929
  5. McQuiston v. Sun CompanySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1928

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