Hart v. Mechanics & Traders Ins. Co. of Hartford

DAWKINS, District Judge.

Plaintiff in the above cases sued in the state court upon insurance policies issued to the H. & P. Department Store, Inc. (hereafter called Department Store), covering merchandise in a building destroyed by fire at Leesville, Louisiana. Hart alleged that he is the duly appointed and sole Trustee of the H. & P. Department Store, Inc. under a contract of trust agreement”, executed by said Department Store in his favor, by which he was “authorized to prosecute this suit and stand-in judgment herein * * * The Department Store also appeared as a party plaintiff “for the…