City of Bridgeport v. Aetna Indemnity Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Intervening application in receivership proceedings, by the plaintiff, an alleged creditor of the defendant, praying for an allowance of its claim, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and referred to a committee who found and reported the facts; the court, Curtís, J., overruled a remonstrance to the supplementary report of the committee and rendered judgment allowing the plaintiff’s claim in the amount of $10,000, and from this judgment the receiver of the…
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Intervening application in receivership proceedings, by the plaintiff, an alleged creditor of the defendant, praying for an allowance of its claim, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and referred to a committee who found and reported the facts; the court, Curtís, J., overruled a remonstrance to the supplementary report of the committee and rendered judgment allowing the plaintiff’s claim in the amount of $10,000, and from this judgment the receiver of the defendant appealed. The situation with which this proceeding is concerned is for the most part fully set out in Bridgeport v.…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, C. J.
All of the reasons of appeal relate to the action of the court below in accepting, against remonstrance, the report of its committee to whom was referred the duty of hearing the evidence touching the extent to which the city had been damaged by reason of the By-Products Company’s breach of its contract, and of reporting its conclusions thereon. The complaints, made in somewhat varying forms, are, in substance, that the committee acted improperly and harmfully to the Indemnity Company in using in any way the Fischer contract as a factor or guide in the determination of the extent to which the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Hamilton v. . McPhersonNew York Court of Appeals · 1863
- City of Bridgeport v. Aetna Indemnity Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1916
- Satchwell v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1873
3Cited by6 opinions
- In Re Kellett Aircraft Corp.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1950
- Frederick Raff Co. v. MurphySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1929
- Eastern Sportswear Co. v. S. Augstein & Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1954
- Mazzotta v. BornsteinSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1926
- Lovejoy v. Town of DarienSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1945
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