Samuels v. Illinois Fire Insurance Company

*354CROSS, Judge.

Plaintiffs, husband and wife, sue defendant insurance company to recover damages for breach of its duty to complete repairs on their dwelling house which was damaged by fire. Defendant appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict awarding plaintiffs damages in the sum of $7,667.00.

On December 9, 1955, defendant issued a fire insurance policy in the amount of $5000.00 on plaintiffs’ four room bungalow for a term of five years. On April 8, 1959, and while the policy was in force, the house was partially destroyed by a fire. Plaintiffs duly notified defendant of the fire and…