Eckhart v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.

At the October term, 1928, of the circuit court of Kankakee county, Helen Eckhart, by her next friend, instituted this proceeding in debt against the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company. The declaration alleges that on March 22, 1927, the defendant was indebted to the plaintiff in the sum of $4,500 and after that date promised to pay the plaintiff said amount, with interest thereon. It was further alleged that the father of the plaintiff was Henry Eckhart, and that he, on April 18, 1925, was accidentally killed at Fort Dodge, Iowa, and that under the provisions of the Workmen’s…