Cowardin v. Universal Life Ins.
Supreme Court of Virginia
W. L. Cowardin and several others filed their bills in the chancery court of the city of Richmond against the Universal Life Insurance Company, to recover back certain premiums they had paid upon policies issued by said company. The bills charged that the company was a foreign corporation and had failed. And the plaintiffs sued out attachments, which were served on certain real estate in the city of Richmond, owned by the said insurance company.
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W. L. Cowardin and several others filed their bills in the chancery court of the city of Richmond against the Universal Life Insurance Company, to recover back certain premiums they had paid upon policies issued by said company. The bills charged that the company was a foreign corporation and had failed. And the plaintiffs sued out attachments, which were served on certain real estate in the city of Richmond, owned by the said insurance company. The several bills were consolidated, and the Universal Life Insurance Company demurred to the bills and also answered. It is only necessary to state…
1Opinion of the CourtChristian, J.
This case is before us on appeal from a decree of the chancery court of the city of Richmond.
*As the case is presented by the record before us, we are not required to pass upon the merits of the controversy.
The only question we have to determine is, whether the chancery court erred in abating the attachment sued out by the appellants (the attaching creditors) against the appellee, the “Universal Life Insurance Company.”
This question, elaborately and ably argued by the counsel on both sides, is, we think, on examination of the record, a very narrow one-It is simply this — whether the Universal…
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