Mahomet v. Hartford Insurance

This case involves the adjudication of the rights and priorities of Hannah Cagley’s' creditors to insurance proceeds which were generated when Hannah Cagley’s furniture business was destroyed by fire; W. J. Gannon and Connelly Acceptance Corporation appeal from the trial court judgment holding that their writs of garnishment against three fire insurance companies did not create a lien on the insurance proceeds. Fred C. Dorsey, the trustee in bankruptcy for Cagley, appeals from that portion of the trial court judgment which granted Ray Hayes, Jr., a former attorney for Hannah Cagley, an…