Bedell v. North America Life Insurance
New York Court of Common Pleas
Motion by the plaintiff to have Henry R. Pierson, who had been appointed receiver of the defendant corporation, 'substituted in place of the corporation as the party ■ defen d- • ant. The facts on which the application was founded and opposed áre stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Charles P. Daly, Chief Justice.
This is not an action brought for the dissolution of an insurance company and the distribution of its assets, and therefore involves no such question as was passed upon by Judge Westbrook in the matter of the attorney-general against the Continental Life Insurance Company, at the Ulster special term of the Supreme Court, March 31, 1877.
It is an equitable action, brought against the North ' America Life Insurance Company for the purpose of compelling a settlement of the amount of the dividends which, under the provision of the charter of the company, should be…
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- Holbrook v. Receivers of the American Fire InsuranceNew York Court of Chancery · 1836
- Hyde v. . LyndeNew York Court of Appeals · 1850
- Shaver v. BrainardNew York Supreme Court · 1859
- M'Mahon v. AllenNew York Court of Common Pleas · 1855
- Bell v. ShibleyNew York Supreme Court · 1861
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