London & Lancashire Insurance ex rel. Kean v. American Caribbean Corp.

The London and Lancashire Insurance Company, Limited, London, England, by Osmond Kean, Agent, plaintiff in this proceeding, filed suit for debt against The American Caribbean Corporation, Reuben Barnett, defendants, for earned premiums on an insurance policy issued under the following circumstances:

Some time prior to March 21, 1949, Reuben Barnett, who had submitted a bid to the Department of the Interior for the leasing of Bluebeard’s Castle Hotel in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, owned by the United States Government, negotiated with the agent of the above-named company for insurance on the…