Legal Opinion
National Ben. Life Ins. Co. v. Shaw-Walker Co.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 8, 1940No. 7376PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RUTLEDGE, Associate Justice.
The appeal is from a decree establishing a receivership in a statutory dissolution proceeding (D.C.Code, 1929, Tit. 5, § 416) for the National Benefit Life Insurance Company, a District of Columbia corporation, at the instance of judgment creditors, plaintiff, Shaw-Walker Company, and intervening individuals, and an intervening policyholder. The decree held that a prior equity receivership had been created by the same court in excess of its jurisdiction and should be superseded by the statutory proceeding and receivership. It is challenged here by the equity…
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