HARDY v. BANKERS LIFE & CASUALTY CO.

Gen. No. 47,439.

19 Ill. App.2d 75 (1958)

153 N.E.2d 269

J. Herschel Hardy, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Bankers Life & Casualty Co., an Illinois Corporation, Hereinafter Called "Bankers," and John D. MacArthur, as Majority Shareholder, Director and President, and as Principal Agent of "Bankers," and Individually, and Great Plains Hotel Co., an Illinois Corporation, and Fiscal Agents, Inc., a Texas Corporation, Hereinafter Called "Fiscal," Leland Fikes and Harold L. Knop, as Majority Shareholders, Directors and President and Principal Agent, Respectively, of "Fiscal," and Individually, and Southwest Mortgage Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, Third Division.

Released for publication October 23, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irving Breakstone, and John O'C. Fitzgerald, both of Chicago, for appellant.

Brundage & Short, of Chicago (Charles F. Short, Jr., Howard A. Brundage, and Narcisse A. Brown, of counsel) for Bankers Life & Casualty Co., Great Plains Hotel Co., John MacArthur, and Leland Fikes, defendants-appellees.

G. Wallace Roth, of Chicago, for Harold L. Knop, Fiscal Agents, Inc., and Southwest Mortgage Corporation, defendants-appellees.


JUSTICE BURKE delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a judgment quashing service of summons on Leland Fikes, Fiscal Agents, Inc., Harold L. Knop and Southwest Mortgage Corporation, hereinafter called the "Texas defendants," and granting summary judgment in favor of Bankers Life & Casualty Co., John D. MacArthur and Great Plains Hotel Company, Inc., hereinafter called the "Illinois defendants." The complaint seeks to recover damages against...

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