American Surety Co. v. Jones

On July 26,1941, the plaintiffs, seventeen in number, filed in the circuit court of Sangamon county their petition, herein referred to as a petition for review, basing their right to file the same and for relief on the Illinois Insurance Code (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1941, ch. 73 [Jones Ill. Stats. Ann. 66.199(1) et seq.]), particularly on secs. 114 and 407 thereof.

The circuit court allowed the motion of defendant to strike such petition and dismissed the same on the ground that the plaintiffs were not such companies as might maintain a petition for review under such sec. 407. This appeal' is from…