Donaldson v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 247, Jan. T., 1921, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. No. 2, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1919, No. 5675, on yerdict for defendant, in case of Thomas B. Donaldson, Insurance Commissioner of Pennsylvania, as such statutory liquidator of Pittsburgh Life & Trust Co., dissolved, Assignee of Charles A. Ambler, Receiver of Pittsburgh Life & Trust Co., dissolved, v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. Assumpsit on contract of suretyship.
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Appeal, No. 247, Jan. T., 1921, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. No. 2, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1919, No. 5675, on yerdict for defendant, in case of Thomas B. Donaldson, Insurance Commissioner of Pennsylvania, as such statutory liquidator of Pittsburgh Life & Trust Co., dissolved, Assignee of Charles A. Ambler, Receiver of Pittsburgh Life & Trust Co., dissolved, v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. Assumpsit on contract of suretyship. Before Stern, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Yerdict and judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appealed. Errors assigned were (1-28)…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Simpson,
On November 20, 1917, Charles A. Ambler, then being insurance commissioner of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, opened a savings fund account in the North Penn Bank of Philadelphia, in the name of “Charles A. Ambler, Receiver of the Pittsburgh Life and Trust Company, dissolved”; the moneys therein deposited being received and held by him virtute officii, the company to which they belonged having been dissolved, and its assets ordered to be collected and distributed, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 1,1911, P. L. 599, later reenacted and…
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