Ruggles v. . Chapman

In each of these cases the substantial question is presented by the claim of the plaintiff to require from the superintendent of the insurance department, a transfer of certain securities which he holds in his official character. The plaintiff is a receiver appointed by the New York Common Pleas, in the exercise of its equitable jurisdiction, at the suit of a stockholder and creditor of the Eclectic Life Insurance Company, in a suit to establish its insolvency, and procure its dissolution, and the distribution of its assets. The securities which the defendant holds, were placed in his hands…