CLAFLIN v. COMMONWEALTH INSURANCE CO.


110 U.S. 81 (1884)

CLAFLIN & Others v. COMMONWEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY. SAME v. WESTERN ASSURANCE COMPANY. SAME v. FRANKLIN INSURANCE COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 14th, 1884.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John B. Sanborn, and Mr. W.H. Sanborn, for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. George B. Young, for the several defendants in error.


MR. JUSTICE MATTHEWS delivered the opinion of the court.

These actions were tried in the court below at the same time, before the same jury, and, by stipulation of parties, were heard in this court upon one record, the issues and questions in them respectively being the same.

They were originally commenced in the District Court of the State of Minnesota for the County of Ramsey, the plaintiffs in error being plaintiffs below. The suits were founded on policies...

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