MacDonald v. Aetna Indemnity Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Application in receivership proceedings pending in the Superior Court in Hartford County for advice and, if judged wise, an order of court authorizing the receivers of the JEtna Indemnity Company to compromise and settle certain claims made by them against the Munich Reinsurance Company under an alleged reinsurance contract pursuant to and in accordance with a proposal of settlement made by the latter; the court, Greene, J., after hearing the parties in interest, passed its…
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Application in receivership proceedings pending in the Superior Court in Hartford County for advice and, if judged wise, an order of court authorizing the receivers of the JEtna Indemnity Company to compromise and settle certain claims made by them against the Munich Reinsurance Company under an alleged reinsurance contract pursuant to and in accordance with a proposal of settlement made by the latter; the court, Greene, J., after hearing the parties in interest, passed its order authorizing the proposed settlement, and from this action certain creditors of the iEtna Indemnity Company…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, C. J.
The receivers moved to erase this appeal, which was taken by creditors of the corporation whose affairs are in settlement, assigning as reasons: (1) that the order appealed from was not the proper subject of appeal, and (2) that the appellants were not entitled to take an appeal therefrom.
In support of the first proposition it is alleged that an appeal could not be predicated upon the order because it was not in the nature of a judgment, and did not involve the determination of any question of law or fact in issue, but was rather an order made in the exercise of the court’s discretion in…
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