Hartford Fire Ins. v. Bonner Mercantile Co.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
'Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Montana. In Equity. This was a suit by the Hartford Fire Insurance Company and others against the Bonner Mercantile Company to set aside an award of arbitrators. A demurrer to the bill was overruled, and an injunction granted. 44 Fed.
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'Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Montana. In Equity. This was a suit by the Hartford Fire Insurance Company and others against the Bonner Mercantile Company to set aside an award of arbitrators. A demurrer to the bill was overruled, and an injunction granted. 44 Fed. Eep. 151. Subsequently the court dismissed the bill as to some of the complainants, for want of jurisdiction, and, as to the rest of them, found the issues for defendant, and dismissed the bill on the merits.
1Opinion of the Court
GlLBEIiT, Circuit Judge.
The Hartford Fire Insurance Company united with a number of other insurance companies in bringing a bill to set aside an award of arbitrators which was made in pursuance of an agreement between tbe insurance companies and the Bonner Mercantile Company, to determine the amount of loss incurred by the latter on account of a certain lire. The property injured by the fire consisted of a large stock of general merchandise, of the value of more than $200,000. The damage was partly from the fire, and the water used to extinguish the same, but was chiefly claimed to consist in…
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