Conner v. Zanuzoski

This action was brought by an insurance agent against C. W. Zanuzoski and his wife to recover premiums in the sum of $234.67 upon two fire insurance policy renewals which had been paid by the plaintiff. Plaintiff twice had obtained a default judgment against the defendants but each was later set aside and the case finally came to trial June 17,1949, nearly a year after it was commenced.

On the evening before the trial, the trial judge received a telegram purportedly sent by a doctor in Superior, Wisconsin, to the effect that C. W. Zanuzoski was too ill to travel. This information was relayed…