Cannell v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE SEIDENFELD

delivered the opinion of the court:

The plaintiff recovered a judgment on a jury verdict in the amount of $4,760,70 for damage to corn crops alleged to have occurred as the result of a hailstorm within the policy of insurance issued by defendant. Defendant appeals, claiming that the verdict was contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence and that the damage award was not based on the evidence.

A policy of crop hail insurance covered plots of 122 acres, 80 acres and 53 acres, respectively. Plaintiff planted com on the three plots in the latter part of April…