Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1909 — INSURANCE CASE COMPROMISED [ARTICLE]

INSURANCE CASE COMPROMISED

Farmers’ Mutual Settles Bissonette Claim for $750. The case of Alfred Bissonette of near Wolcott, vs. the Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Company of Benton, Jasper and White Counties, was compromised in the White circuit court Tuesday. Bissonette was delinquent on an assessment made by the company, and owing to sornw objections to the way the policy was written which was not just precisely the way he wanted It, /ie refused to pay the assessment. After he had alose he thought better of this and wanted to pay. The company, however, took the ground that having missed the assessment and refusing to pay same, it was not holding for a |oss later sustained. The policy was for SI,OOO. Bissonette sued and the case has been in court for a year or more, having been continued from term to term, and last Tuesday the parties got together in settlement, the company Paying him $750 and one-half the court costs. While not legally or morally owing the amount, as the company thought, it considered this the better way to end the matter. The company has upwards of $2,500,000 Insurance in force, and the addition to the annual assessment to pay this small amount to Bissonette will be but a trifle. You are all thinking of Xmas, so see my line of bath-robes, smoking jackets, collar-boaes, travelers’ sets, pin and tie to match, silk hose, and everything. C. EARL DUVALL.