Goodrich & Hick's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas No. 1, of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1884, No. 128. This was an appeal by Henry C. Goodrich and William B. Nevins, trading as Goodrich & Nevins, and Ralph Hicks, Richard Sinnot and Alfred Grissom, Jr., owners of the steamer “ Mary Boll,” from a decree of said court, confirming the report of an Auditor appointed to report distribution of a fund constituting assets of the Penn Fire Insurance Company, an insolvent corporation.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas No. 1, of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1884, No. 128. This was an appeal by Henry C. Goodrich and William B. Nevins, trading as Goodrich & Nevins, and Ralph Hicks, Richard Sinnot and Alfred Grissom, Jr., owners of the steamer “ Mary Boll,” from a decree of said court, confirming the report of an Auditor appointed to report distribution of a fund constituting assets of the Penn Fire Insurance Company, an insolvent corporation. The appellants had suffered loss under policies of lire insurance held by them in said company, and, for the reasons…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
The only question raised by the several assignments of error, in this case, is whether or not, in the distribution of the assets of the Penn Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia, in the hands of an assignee, the appellants are entitled to any preference over the general creditors of the company. The preference claimed is as to the fund of $6000 received on set- , tlement or compromise, with the French corporation known as “La Caisse Générale des Assurances Agricoles et contre l’lneendie.” It is unfortunate, perhaps, that the formal policy provided for .in the agreement, between the Caisse…
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