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- Title: Barrington Cons. High Sch. v. Amer. Ins.
- Author : Supreme Court of Illinois
- Release Date : January 17, 1974
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 71 KB
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Rehearing denied November 26, 1974. In July 1971 the Barrington Consolidated High School, School District 224 of Barrington, Illinois, and Kathleen Van Ness Lawyer, a former teacher in the school district, filed a complaint for declaratory judgment in the circuit court of Lake County under section 57.1 of the Civil Practice Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 110, par. 57.1) against the American Insurance Company and its successor in interest, the Fireman's Fund Insurance Companies, as the public-liability insurers for the plaintiff district and its employees. Nominal defendants in the action were Susan Schafer and her father, Leo Schafer, who earlier had brought a personal injury suit against the plaintiff school district, and Kathleen Van Ness Lawyer. The plaintiffs brought the declaratory judgment action when the insurers refused to defend them in the suit brought by the Schafers. The trial court in the declaratory judgment action held that the insurers had breached the terms of their policy with the plaintiff school district by failing to defend. The appellate court reversed (11 Ill. App.3d 180), and we granted the plaintiffs' petition for leave to appeal.