Sergeant v. Goldsmith Dry Goods Co.

This appeal grows out of a suit filed by George Sergeant, as receiver of the Commercial Underwriters, an unincorporated insurance association, and as trustee for a large number of parties asserting claims against said Commercial Underwriters. Some 1,300 persons, firms, and corporations were named as defendants in the court below, all of whom were alleged to be engaged in the fire insurance business among themselves under the assumed name of the Commercial Underwriters, but who were charged to be in law a partnership association and liable as such under the facts hereinafter related. Sergeant…