Seaboard Ins. Co. of Maryland v. Caver

Appellants are seven fire insurance companies which had policies of insurance covering either the building or the stock of merchandise or both owned by appellee in Amity, Arkansas, and which property was destroyed by fire about 12 o ’clock on the night of April 26, 1943.

Appellants not having paid appellee the amounts covered by their several policies after notice, proof of loss and demand, he brought separate actions against them and the Merchants & Planters Bank & Trust Company, hereinafter called the Bank, on September 14,1943, to recover judgments against the several appellants for the…