Aetna Life Ins. Co. v. Middleport
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCtJIT COURT OP THE" UNITED STATES POR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OP ILLINOIS. This was an appeal from a decree of the Circuit .Court of the United States for tbe Northern District of Illinois, dismissing on demurrer the bill of the .¿Etna Life Insurance Company, the present appellant.
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APPEAL PROM THE CIRCtJIT COURT OP THE" UNITED STATES POR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OP ILLINOIS. This was an appeal from a decree of the Circuit .Court of the United States for tbe Northern District of Illinois, dismissing on demurrer the bill of the .¿Etna Life Insurance Company, the present appellant. The substance of the bill was that the complainant is the owner of fifteen bonds, of one thousand dollars each, issued by the township of Middleport, in the State of Illinois, dated February 20, 1871, and delivered to the Chicago, Danville and Yineennes Railroad Company. These bonds were payable to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Millee
In the argument of the demurrer before the Circuit Court several objections to the bill were taken. The defendant in error,1 however, relies here upon three principal grounds of defence : First, it denies the right of subrogation, upon which rests the whole case of the complainant; second, it relies upon the statute of limitations of five years; and third, it asserts that the former decree in the state court is a bar to the action here.
The Circuit Court held that the statute of limitations was a bar to the present suit, and dismissed the bill on that ground.
But we regard the primary question,…
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