Hebel v. Amazon Insurance

Graves, J:

The plaintiff claimed as assignee of one Adolph Hebei to recover ten hundred and thirteen dollars for a fire loss in 1872 suffered by the assignor, and which was covered by a policy issued to the latter by the defendant, a corporation of Ohio doing business here. The company defended on the ground that previous to the assignment to the plaintiff,, and after the loss, certain creditors of the assignor commenced two garnishee suits against the company, one before a justice of the peace of Detroit and the other in the Wayne circuit court, based on the demand existing under the policy…