Derrick v. Lamar Insurance

Edwin Burnham and Edward* R. Burnham having before recovered a judgment against the Lamar Insurance Company, on the 23d day of October, 1872, filed their creditor’s bill against the company and others, in the Superior Court of Cook county, to obtain satisfaction of the judgment.

Such proceedings were had upon the bill, that on the 23d of November, 1872, a receiver of the insurance company was appointed by the court below, vested with all the rights and property of the company, with power to prosecute and defend all suits, collect all moneys due the corporation, and enforce all liabilities of…