Cousens v. Lovejoy
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions, by plaintiffs to the pro forma ruling of the presiding justice, discharging the trustee who made a disclosure, and upon which arose the question of jurisdiction of the court over the property of the defendant, no service having been made upon him.
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On exceptions, by plaintiffs to the pro forma ruling of the presiding justice, discharging the trustee who made a disclosure, and upon which arose the question of jurisdiction of the court over the property of the defendant, no service having been made upon him. Besides the facts stated in the opinion, it appeared that on September 13, 1867, the insurance company by its agents, Downes and Curran, at Calais, Maine, issued a policy of fire insurance to .the principal defendant, for $1000, upon his stock of goods situate at Milltown, New Brunswick. About December 23, 1887 the goods were damaged…
1Opinion of the CourtFoster, J.
The plaintiffs, residing in Maine, have brought this suit against the defendant, a resident of the province of New Brunswick, and summoned the Royal Insurance Company, a foreign corporation, as trustee. This corporation was organized under the laws of England and has its head office at Liverpool. Its managers for New England are Scull & Bradley of Boston, and its agents duly appointed for this state are Downes & Curran of Calais, at which place it does a fire insurance business under a license from the insurance commissioner of Maine.
This trustee, through its agents in this state upon whom…
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