Boogher v. Insurance Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri. This was an action by the New York Life Insurance Company against Davis R. Boogher and his sureties, upon a bond executed by them Dec. 22,1871, and conditioned as follows: — “Whereas the above bounden Davis'R. Boogher has been appointed by said company as their agent for the purpose of procuring applications for life insurance, and performing such other duties in connection therewith as may…
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Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri. This was an action by the New York Life Insurance Company against Davis R. Boogher and his sureties, upon a bond executed by them Dec. 22,1871, and conditioned as follows: — “Whereas the above bounden Davis'R. Boogher has been appointed by said company as their agent for the purpose of procuring applications for life insurance, and performing such other duties in connection therewith as may be intrusted to him: Now, if the said Davis R. Boogher shall pay or hand over all moneys belonging to said company…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
It is, to say the leást, doubtful whether cases tried in the circuit courts by a referee, in States where such a practice exists, can be reviewed here. While, since the act of 1872, c. 255 (17 Stat. 196, now sect. 914, Rev. Stat.), the practice, pleadings, and forms and modes of proceedings in civil causes, other than equity and admiralty causes, in the circuit and district courts, must conform, as near as may be, to the practice, pleadings, and forms and modes of proceeding existing at the time in like causes in the courts of record of the State within which such circuit or district courts…
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