Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Gordon

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE DEMPSEY

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a garnishment action in which the plaintiff, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (Liberty), claims that an Illinois workmen’s compensation policy issued by the garnishee-defendant, Fidelity General Insurance Company (Fidelity), to the defendant, Seymour Gordon, d/b/a Webb Enterprises (Gordon) covered a project undertaken by Gordon in Wisconsin.

In May of 1959 Gordon, a scrap metal dealer in Chicago, Illinois, called an insurance broker and requested workmen’s compensation insurance for his business. The broker wrote Fidelity…