Legal Opinion

Lycoming Fire Insurance v. Ward

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided September 15, 1878PublishedCited by 26 opinions

Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph E. Gary, Judge,- presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Craig

This was an action, brought by Elizabeth Ward, in the Superior Court of Cook county, against the Lycoming Fire Insurance Company, on a policy of insurance, executed by the defendant to the plaintiff on the 24th day of April, 1874, insuring the property of the plaintiff for one year in the sum of |1500.

On a trial of the cause before a jury, the plaintiff recovered a verdict and judgment for the amount of the policy and interest, to reverse which the defendant appealed.

The first error complained of is, the decision of the court in overruling defendant’s challenge to five persons, Hansen, Folz,…

2Cited by26 opinions

  1. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance v. SchlinkIllinois Supreme Court · 1898
  2. Coughlin v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1893
  3. Gosch v. Firemen's InsuranceSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1907
  4. Murphy v. Independent Order of the Sons & Daughters of Jacob of AmericaMississippi Supreme Court · 1900
  5. Edwards v. Home InsuranceMissouri Court of Appeals · 1903

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