Federal Intermediate Credit Bank v. Globe & Rutgers Fire Ins.

CHESNUT, District Judge.

These three separate suits at law have, by stipulation of counsel, been tried together under written waiver of jury trial. There is a question common to them all, the decision of which controls the verdict. Each of the defendants concedes a liability in some amount to the plaintiff but the plaintiff is suing for a much larger sum from each than the amounts respectively admitted. The question of liability for the larger amount does not depend on any controverted question as to the amount of the loss, nor on any disputed provision in any, of the policies of any of the…