Beale v. Connecticut Fire Ins.

THAYER, Circuit Judge.

This case passed off below on demurrer to a bill of complaint, which was sustained, and the bill was thereupon dismissed. The action was commenced by Samuel W. Beale, as assignee of the St. Joseph Town Mutual Fire Insurance Company, plaintiff in error, hereafter called the “St. Joseph Company,” against the Connecticut Fire Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn., defendant in error, hereafter termed the “Hartford Company.” The complaint charged, in substance, that the St. Joseph Company was incorporated under an act of the General Assembly of the state of Missouri approved…