Liverpool & London & Globe Ins. v. Nebraska Storage Warehouses, Inc.

THOMAS, Circuit Judge.

The appellee owned a warehouse building in Omaha, Neb., in which a fire occurred about 5 :30 o’clock on the afternoon of February 3, 1932. Eight separate actions at law were brought in the state court against eight different companies carrying fire insurance upon the building. In these cases it was alleged that the building was burned and partially destroyed. One of the cases was tried in the state court and a jury found that the damage to the building amounted to $14,500, and the defendant in that case paid and discharged its share of the judgment. In the seven…