Zak v. Fidelity-Phenix Insurance

The question presented by this appeal is whether defendant, Fidelity-Phenix Insurance Company, as successor to Metropolitan Casualty Insurance Company of New York, was, at the time of an accident occurring on November 14,

1958, bound by an automobile liability policy which had been issued to the plaintiff, Joanne Zak. Contrary conclusions were reached by the circuit court of Cook County and the appellate court, the former finding that the policy had been effectively cancelled prior to the accident, and the latter that the cancellation was void and unenforceable. (Zak v. Fidelity-Phenix…