National Insurance v. Webster

This was assumpsit, in the Superior Court of Cook county, on a policy of insurance, written by the Rational Insurance Company to Sidney T. Webster, upon the body, tackle, apparel and other fixtures of the propellor “ Equator.”

A jury was waived, and the issue tried by the court, who found for the plaintiff, and assessed the damages at three thousand two hundred and twenty.dollars and eighty cents. Exceptions were duly taken, and an appeal prayed and perfected to this court.

It appears, from the record, that, for the purpose of avoiding a continuance of the cause, and that the trial should then…