American Casualty Insurance Company's Case
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeals by the Boston and Albany Railroad Company and nineteen other parties from an order of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, distributing the funds of the American Casualty Insurance and Security Company among its creditors, according to certain priorities established by that order.
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Appeals by the Boston and Albany Railroad Company and nineteen other parties from an order of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, distributing the funds of the American Casualty Insurance and Security Company among its creditors, according to certain priorities established by that order. On November 23, 1893, Isaac R. Trimble and other creditors filed a bill in the Court below alleging that the Casualty Company “ is now indebted to various persons in many parts of the United States for claims against the defendant for losses under the terms of various policies of insurance issued by it to an…
1Opinion of the CourtMcSherry, C. J.
There are twenty appeals in the record now before us. The cases were elaborately and ably argued during the last October term of this Court and the preparation of the opinion was then assigned to the late Chief Judge Robinson. His lamented death occurring shortly afterwards without his having done more.than hurriedly sketch an incomplete outline of some of the many questions involved delayed a decision till now. We have had the benefit of Judge Robinson’s notes and will avail of them in this opinion.
The American Casualty Insurance and Security Company of Baltimore City was incorporated under…
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- Carr v. HamiltonSupreme Court of the United States · 1889
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