Phœnix Insurance v. King

Ragan, C.

One McEvony was sheriff of Holt county, and while such officer he performed certain services for the Phcenix Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, — hereinafter called the “insurance company,” — in and about the levying upon, having appraised, advertising, and offering for sale lands upon which the insurance company had foreclosed mortgages. The claim against the insurance company for the fees which he alleged he had earned in the performance of said services McEvony assigned to King & Cronin; and to recover these fees from the insurance company, they brought this action in the…