Lee Blakemore, Inc. v. Lewelling
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas; Jacob Trieber, Judge. Suit by Lee Blakemore, Incorporated, and others against P. J. Lewelling and others. From a decree for defendants, complainants appeal.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas; Jacob Trieber, Judge. Suit by Lee Blakemore, Incorporated, and others against P. J. Lewelling and others. From a decree for defendants, complainants appeal. This is an appeal by Lee Blakemore", Incorporated, and Herman L. Hettler Lumber-Company, a corporation, from a decree of the court below to the effect that P. J. Lewelling and Vernon Price-Williams, partners as Lewelling & Price-Williams, recover upon a contract of insurance against loss by fire from Manufacturing Wood Workers’ Underwriters and from…
1Opinion of the CourtSanborn, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). It has seemed necessary to a clear understanding of this case that many facts concerning it should be stated, and that the acts and writings of the parties and the course of the litigation should be portrayed, and this has been done in the foregoing statement.
This is not an action at law. It is a suit in equity. Lee Blakemore, Incorporated, the attorney in fact of each of the underwriters, first invoked the action of the court of equity below to relieve it and the underwriters from payment of the loss which Lewelling & Price-Williams sustained by the…
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