Hanover Fire Insurance v. Connor
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Elliott Anthony, Judge, presiding. On the 20th day of December, 1884, Ithiei B. Farnum and George G. Farnnin brought their suit in assumpsit in the superior court, by attachment, against Mrs. L. B. Connor, and caused the Hanover Fire Insurance Company, of New York, and the Citizens Fire Insurance Company, of New York, doing business under the name and style of the Underwriters Agency of New York, to be summoned as…
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Elliott Anthony, Judge, presiding. On the 20th day of December, 1884, Ithiei B. Farnum and George G. Farnnin brought their suit in assumpsit in the superior court, by attachment, against Mrs. L. B. Connor, and caused the Hanover Fire Insurance Company, of New York, and the Citizens Fire Insurance Company, of New York, doing business under the name and style of the Underwriters Agency of New York, to be summoned as garnishees. Judgment was duly rendered in favor of the plaintiffs against Mrs. Connor for $546.85 and costs, and…
1Opinion of the CourtBailey, J.
A judgment having been given against the garnishees on their answers alone, two questions are presented: 1, whether the garnishees have charged themselves hy their answers; and 2, whether the facts set up hy them in defense of their liability upon their policies of insurance are sufficient to discharge them. The principal controversy in the case arises upon the first of these questions, and we have given it as careful consideration as the time at our command has permitted.
The answers admit the execution by the garnishees to Mrs. Connor of two policies of insurance against fire for $1,000…
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