Piedmont & Arlington Life Insurance v. Maury
Supreme Court of Virginia
This case was argued at Richmond but decided at Wythewille. It was an appeal from a decree of the chancery court of the city of Richmond in a suit brought by C. B. Maury, a policyholder and creditor of the Piedmont and Arlington Life Insurance Company, against the said company and A. R. Blakey, trustee.
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This case was argued at Richmond but decided at Wythewille. It was an appeal from a decree of the chancery court of the city of Richmond in a suit brought by C. B. Maury, a policyholder and creditor of the Piedmont and Arlington Life Insurance Company, against the said company and A. R. Blakey, trustee. Two petitions were filed, one at rules by J. C. Miller and others, and the other in court at the succeeding term by J. Bussey and others, in both of which the petitioners stated their respective cases and prayed to be admitted as parties plaintiff in the cause. At the time the petition of…
1Opinion of the CourtBurks, J.
The bill by the appellee Maury does not in so many words profess to be on behalf of himself and all other creditors of the defendant corporation, but the case stated and the relief contemplated and prayed make it in substance and legal effect as completely a general creditors’ bill as if it had been framed as such in the most technical form. Duerson’s Adm’r v. Alsop and others, 27 Gratt. 227, 235. After stating the plaintiff’s case, it alleges that “there are a vast number of policyholders of said company scattered throughout many States, and that it is now important that they should be…
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