Beverly Country Club v. Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance

The Beverly Country Club, a corporation, sued Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Company, a corporation, in the municipal court of Chicago in a “fourth class contract case.” To an amended statement of claim the defendant filed a motion “to dismiss the cause for want of jurisdiction of the subject matter,” which motion was overruled, and thereupon the defendant moved to strike the amended statement of claim for insufficiency, which motion was also overruled, and the defendant “electing to stand by the motions,” the court assessed the plaintiff’s damages at the sum of $216 “on the plaintiff’s…