JORGENSEN v. BAKER

Gen. No. 47,407.

21 Ill. App.2d 196 (1959)

157 N.E.2d 773

N. Chris Jorgensen, Francis J. Curtis, Trustee in Bankruptcy for Brokers Insurance Agency, Inc., E. Keith Bowers, Doing Business as Ace Insurance Agency, and M.J. Law, Appellants, v. Russell Baker, John C. McKenzie and Dwight Hightower, Individually, and as Copartners, Doing Business as Baker, McKenzie and Hightower, Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, First Division.

Rehearing denied May 12, 1959.

Released for publication May 13, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gale L. Marcus, of Chicago (I. Harvey Levinson, Melvin E. Levinson, of counsel) for plaintiffs-appellants.

Hinshaw, Culbertson, Moelmann & Hoban, of Chicago (Oswell G. Treadway, of counsel) for defendants-appellees.


JUSTICE DEMPSEY delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal by the plaintiffs from an order dismissing their third amended complaint.

The complaint has eleven counts. Three are for money had and received; the others are for fraud and deceit. The plaintiffs, who were insurance agents and brokers, allege that in the early months of 1950 they were induced to place insurance risks with the defendants, who were engaged as insurance carriers under the...

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