Manufacturers Casualty Insurance v. Wilhelm

The majority is holding that the Manufacturers Casualty Insurance Company was subrogated, to the extent of $2,-000.00 to the position of Mrs. McLaughlin against Sheehan, Tyrrell, and Hoover, who were sureties on Wilhelm’s supersedeas bond in his first case in this Court. My study convinces me: (a) that the insurance company can now assert by subrogation only the rights that Mrs. McLaughlin could have asserted against the sureties on Wilhelm’s supersedeas bond; (b) that Mrs. McLaughlin lost the right to assert the $2,000.00 claim here involved, against the sureties, Sheehan, Tyrrell, and…