Crouse v. Phœnix Insurance
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Scire Facias upon a process of foreign attachment; brought to the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Hartford, and tried to the court before Calhoun, J. Facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiffs and appeal by the defendants. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
The defendant is a corporation chartered by *179the legislature of this state and has its legal location here. In 1885 it issued a policy of insurance against loss by fire in favor of one George M. Hutchinson, a resident in the state of New York, upon property there.
In January, 1886, a portion of it was destroyed by fire. The defendant had previously, in compliance with a statutory requirement by that state, appointed the superintendent of the insurance department therein its attorney there, with such power as that a suit instituted against it there, by service upon its attorney, would support a…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Upton v. HubbardSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1859
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