Eggleston v. Slusher

Irvine, C.

This was an action by Eggleston against John D. Slusher and others, the object of which was to have the proceeds of a certain policy of fire insurance, issued in favor of Henry Burcham, applied to the satisfaction of a judgment recovered by Eggleston against Burcham. There were several claimants of the fund, and the case can perhaps be best elucidated by stating, without reciting the numerous pleadings, the claims of the interested parties, together with a preliminary statement of certain facts not in dispute.

Henry Burcham was, in 1891, the apparent or actual owner of a grain…