Cook v. Commellini

The plaintiffs, A. F. Cook and Mary E. Cook, his wife, brought this action to foreclose a labor and materialmen’s lien upon property owned by the defendant Ambassador Building Corporation. There were other parties made defendant, including the Independent Lumber & Fuel Company, a corporation, and the receiver of the Ambassador Building Corporation. Subsequently, the Albert’s Apartments, Inc., intervened.

After his appointment, the receiver caused ten thousand dollars in insurance to be placed upon the building on the property, which, as he thought, was for the benefit of general creditors.…