Garford Motor Truck Co. v. Miller's National Insurance

The plaintiff truck company brought this action in the superior court of Cook county, basing the action on a policy of insurance issued by the defendant insurance company, seeking thereby to recover the cost of repairing damages to a truck belonging to the plaintiff. At the conclusion of the plaintiff’s case, the defendant requested the court to give the jury a peremptory instruction to find the issues in its* favor, which motion the court denied. The defendant introduced no testimony. The jury found the issues for the plaintiff, and on this verdict the court entered judgment for the…