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FISCHER v. AMER. UNITED INS. CO.

No. 91.

314 U.S. 549 (1942)

FISCHER, COMMISSIONER OF INSURANCE OF IOWA, RECEIVER, v. AMERICAN UNITED LIFE INSURANCE CO. ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 5, 1942.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Willis J. O'Brien and John N. Hughes, Jr., with whom Mr. John N. Hughes was on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Clayton F. Jennings, with whom Mr. Edmund C. Shields was on the brief, for John G. Emery, Commissioner of Insurance of Michigan, respondent.

Mr. John M. Scott, with whom Messrs. H.T. McGown and B.E. Godfrey were on the brief, for Dan E. Lydick, Texas receiver; and Mr. Robert A. Adams for the American United Life Ins. Co., respondents.

MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The question presented by this case is whether the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa had jurisdiction to determine a dispute between the Iowa receiver of American Life Insurance Co., on the one hand, and the Michigan and Texas receivers, on the other,1 as respects the title to, and the right to administer, certain...

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