Demmer v. American Insurance
Appellate Court of Illinois
Debt, on a replevin bond. Appeal from the Circuit Court of DuPage County; the Hon. Charles A. Bishop, Judge presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1903.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Farmer
Abe Adler was, in 1899, and had been for some time prior thereto, conducting a gent’s furnishing goods and merchant tailoring business in Elgin. He had his stock insured for $6,000. This was divided between three companies: appellant, the American Insurance Co. of Newark, New Jersey, the Insurance Company of North America and the North British Mercantile Insurance Company/ each writing $2,000.
On the first day of August, 1899, a fire destroyed a portion and damaged the remainder of the stock. Soon afterward Adler, with the assistance of a man who testified he had had large experience in…
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