Connolly v. Bolster
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in EQUITY, filed November 22, and amended December 23, 1901, by the holder of a judgment against the defendant Edwin D. Bell for the sum of $4,017.33 damages and $27.62 costs, recovered in an action for personal injuries received by the plaintiff on March 8,1899, while in the employ of the defendant Bell, alleging that the defendant Bell had absented himself from the Commonwealth and before doing so had placed in the hands of the defendant Bolster as his attorney a…
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Bill in EQUITY, filed November 22, and amended December 23, 1901, by the holder of a judgment against the defendant Edwin D. Bell for the sum of $4,017.33 damages and $27.62 costs, recovered in an action for personal injuries received by the plaintiff on March 8,1899, while in the employ of the defendant Bell, alleging that the defendant Bell had absented himself from the Commonwealth and before doing so had placed in the hands of the defendant Bolster as his attorney a policy of insurance issued by the defendant London Guarantee and Accident Company, made a party by amendment, insuring the…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
The plaintiff contends that he is entitled to maintain this bill to reach and apply the debt due from the insurance company to his employer Bell, first, on the ground that on the true construction of the policy the insurance company is indebted at law to his employer in the amount of the judgment which he has recovered against him, and secondly, that if the debt is not due at law his employer has a right in equity to maintain a bill against him for exoneration and to compel the company to satisfy the judgment directly.
On the first ground the plaintiff relies on the case of Sanders v.…
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