Davis v. Claxton

Appeal by Andrew J. Davis and Daniel N. Dellinger, plaintiffs, from a judgment in favor of the defendant John K. Claxton, in an action wherein certain insurance companies required the parties hereto to set up their respective claims to $4,000 deposited in court.

The record discloses the following facts: On December 27, 1925, a stock of goods belonging to I. Mattingly, a Butte merchant, was partially destroyed by fire; the loss was in excess of $8,000, partially covered by three policies of insurance aggregating $4,000. Two days after the fire, Mattingly made an assignment of each of the…