Marino v. Firemen's Insurance

This appeal comes to us from a judgment entered for the plaintiff in the sum of $1,056.42, upon findings by the trial court without a jury. The amount of damages, being for collision repairs to a motor vehicle allegedly insured by defendant, was stipulated and is not an issue.

It appears that plaintiff was a trucker in Joliet, Illinois. On November 1, 1946, he went to the office of Kahn & Brown, defendant’s agent in Joliet, and at his request was interviewed by one Bichard Cheadle, a salesman for the agency who had handled plaintiff’s insurance before. Plaintiff told Cheadle that he had a…