Biggert v. Straub
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed January 26 and amended May 31,1906, against Charles L. Straub and Bertha G. Straub, his wife, both of Pittsburgh in the State of Pennsylvania and temporarily residing at Brooklyn in the State of Hew York, and the State Mutual Life Assurance Company, a corporation organized under the laws of this Commonwealth and having its usual place of business at Worcester in this Commonwealth, under R. L. c. 159, § 3, cl. 7, to ascertain and determine the…
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Bill in equity, filed January 26 and amended May 31,1906, against Charles L. Straub and Bertha G. Straub, his wife, both of Pittsburgh in the State of Pennsylvania and temporarily residing at Brooklyn in the State of Hew York, and the State Mutual Life Assurance Company, a corporation organized under the laws of this Commonwealth and having its usual place of business at Worcester in this Commonwealth, under R. L. c. 159, § 3, cl. 7, to ascertain and determine the indebtedness of the defendants Straub to the plaintiff and to reach and apply to the payment of such indebtedness a certain policy…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
This is a suit in equity in the nature of an equitable trustee process, brought under the R. L. c. 159, § 3, cl. 7, to reach and apply in payment of a debt due, the plaintiff’s property in the hands of the defendant life insurance company, belonging to the debtor, Charles L. Straub. This defendant and *79his wife, Bertha Gr. Straub, the other defendant, who seems to have an interest in the property, are not residents of this Commonwealth and the only service made upon either of them was by publication. They have filed motions to dismiss the suit for want of jurisdiction. The presiding judge…
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