Illinois Life Insurance v. Prentiss
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Thomas G. Windes, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cooke
This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Cook county forever restraining appellant, James H. Prentiss, from instituting suit against appellee, the Illinois Life Insurance Company, in the State of Missouri or in any other jurisdiction where the right of trial by jury is other or different from the right thereto existing in the State of Illinois, on a certain policy of insurance issued by appellee upon the life of Clinton S. Woolfolk, deceased. The amended bill filed by appellee charges that appellee is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Illinois;…
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