Scott v. Freeport Motor Casualty Co.

Mr. Presiding Justice Wolfe

delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiffs, Mary Scott and Fred Scott, each procured a judgment against Bernard Eden for the injuries they received in an automobile collision between a car being driven by Fred Scott and the car owned and driven by Bernard Eden. The judgment in favor of Fred Scott was for $2,500, and of Mary Scott for $5,000. Executions were issued out of the circuit court of Lee county against Bernard Eden on said judgments, and the same were, returned unsatisfied.

At the time of the accident in question, Bernard Eden carried a policy of…