Ætna Ins. v. Atlantic Coast Line R.

NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree entered in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, in December, 1934, in favor of the appellee, hereinafter referred to as the "Railroad.” The action was originally brought at law by eight of the appellants, insurance carriers, suing for the benefit of themselves as assignees of the American Hardware Company, and for the benefit of such other insurance companies as were similarly situated, and who might be allowed to intervene and to be made parties plaintiff to the action. While the matter was…