Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co. v. LaForge

PRESIDING JUSTICE STEIGMANN

delivered the opinion of the court:

In April 2003, defendant Country Companies Mutual Insurance & Financial Services (which was then plaintiff and subrogee of defendants Alan Investments and Cross Farms, Inc.) filed a complaint against defendant Grant LaForge, seeking to recoup $34,103.50 that Country Mutual paid to Alan Investments and Cross Farms for the loss of several hundred pigs that died while in LaForge’s care. In May 2003, plaintiff, Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Company, filed a complaint for declaratory judgment, seeking a determination as to whether it owed…