Home Insurance v. Dick

Dick, a citizen of Texas, brought this action in a court of that State against Compafiia General Anglo-Mexieana de Seguros S. A., a Mexican corporation, to recover on a policy of fire insurance for the total loss of a tug. Jurisdiction was asserted in rem through garnishment, by ancillary writs issued against The Home Insurance Company and Franklin Fire Insurance Company, which reinsured, by contracts with the Mexican corporation, parts of the risk which it had assumed. The garnishees are New York corporations. Hpon them, service was effected by serving their local agents in Texas appointed…