Mahon v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE BRYANT

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is a chancery action for the reformation of an automobile insurance policy in order to reform the effective date of the policy from August 10, 1953 to August 8, 1953. The action was originally instituted in October, 1954 as a suit at law by plaintiffs Bentcliff and Skubick. The suit was amended into an action in chancery and Robert Mahon and Wanda Mahon were added as nominal plaintiffs, while State Farm’s agent Robert Soffel was added as a defendant. The cause was referred to a Master who took testimony, received evidence and…