Reiter v. Illinois National Casualty Co.

Plaintiff brought suit for an accounting and for the return to him of certain stock of the Illinois National Casualty Co. (hereafter called the Casualty company) which he claimed was obtained from him by duress and coercion by the defendants Barr, vice president and principal minority stockholder of the Casualty company, Fitzgerald, the personal attorney for Barr and later attorney for Barr as “conservator” of the Casualty company, and Palmer, superintendent of insurance. The Casualty company, and Fidelity Deposit Company of Maryland, surety on Palmer’s official bond, were also made…