Kirk v. Fletcher

Broady, District Judge.

This proceeding is in equity, and is a consolidation of a suit in equity brought by the plaintiff, Kirk, as the receiver of the Platte Valley State Bank, to impress a claimed assignment of an interest of defendants Fletcher in a lease in public school lands; and to also recover upon two separate policies of fire insurance issued upon the same property. One of these insurance policies was applied for and issued in the individual name of the cashier of the bank, and the other was issued to a former assignee of the school-land lease. Both the insured and insurer in each of…