Horrigan v. State Farm Insurance

This is a review of a decision of the court of appeals which affirmed a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county, Hon. Leander J. Foley, Jr., Judge, dismissing the complaint of Thomas P. Horrigan and Gabe Horrigan, his wife, plaintiffs-appellants-petitioners, against State Farm Insurance Company (hereinafter State Farm), defendant-respondent. The trial court held it lacked jurisdiction because there was no proper service of process on State Farm.

The issue on review is: Was plaintiffs’ service of process made upon someone “apparently in charge of” the State Farm office, in accordance…