Peoples Bank of Buffalo v. Aetna Indemnity Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Intervening application in receivership proceedings pending in the Superior Court in Hartford County, by an alleged creditor of the defendant company, praying for the allowance of a claim of $28,750, and referred to a committee who found and reported the facts; the court, Gager, J., accepted the report of the committee and allowed the claim to the amount of $15,386, and from this judgment both parties appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
The Aetna Indemnity Company is in the hands of a receiver appointed by the Superior Court. The Peoples Bank of Buffalo presented to the receiver a claim against the Indemnity Company which he disallowed. This is an application by the bank to the court, asking that the claim be allowed.
The claim is based upon the alleged breach of its bond of indemnity given by the company to the bank to indemnify it against any loss that might accrue to it through the negligence or dishonesty of the American Warehousing Company of Buffalo, according to three warehouse receipts issued by it and held by the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Casey v. CavarocSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
- Security Warehousing Co. v. HandSupreme Court of the United States · 1907
- In re Waddell-Entz Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1896
- Curtis, Receiver v. LewisSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1902
- Bank of Buffalo v. Aetna Indemnity Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1916
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