ILLINOIS POWER & LIGHT CORPORATION v. HURLEY

No. 9006.

49 F.2d 681 (1931)

ILLINOIS POWER & LIGHT CORPORATION v. HURLEY et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 26, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas F. Doran, of Topeka, Kan., and E. Bentley Hamilton, of Peoria, Ill. (T. M. Pierce and Anderson, Gilbert & Wolfort, all of St. Louis, Mo., on the brief), for appellant.

John S. Leahy, of St. Louis, Mo. (T. J. Hoolan and Leahy, Saunders & Walther, all of St. Louis, Mo., on the brief), for appellees.

Before STONE and GARDNER, Circuit Judges, and WOODROUGH, District Judge.


GARDNER, Circuit Judge.

This is an action brought by appellees as trustees for Cain-Hurley Lumber Company, a Missouri corporation, dissolved, to recover damages on account of fire loss sustained by that company, and which it is claimed was caused by the negligence of the Madison County Light & Power Company, appellant's predecessor. The Madison County Light & Power Company was an Illinois corporation, which, subsequent...

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