Brady v. Botkin

This is a suit in equity to determine who is entitled to insurance money which, subsequent to the fire loss, was paid by the insurers into court. The destroyed property was the Edgewater hotel and furnishings therein, the same being located in the city of St. Joseph. Separate policies of insurance were carried on the building and on the contents. Plaintiff is the executor, appointed by the probate court of Cook county, Illinois, of the estate of Frank P. Graves who, when he died in 1915, was domiciled in Illinois. At the time of his death Mr. Graves seems to have owned practically all the…