HARTFORD ACCIDENT AND INDEM. CO. v. STATE OF KANSAS

No. 5441.

247 F.2d 315 (1957)

The HARTFORD ACCIDENT AND INDEMNITY COMPANY, a corporation, Appellant, v. STATE OF KANSAS ex rel. Harold R. FATZER, Attorney General, for the benefit of Ben MEITL, Guy C. Sawyer, Gerald F. Meitl, Albert Schroer, N. C. Johnson, Ladimar Skubal, V. L. Skubal, L. J. Skubal, Louise Schroer, Bernard Schifferdecke, Harold H. Derby, Rudolph Skubal, Marion Bremer, Don Ehler, Fred Bremer, C. H. Alstrom, Leo J. Rogers, John Meitl, F. J. Reichert, Anna Schroer, Cloyce Harold, Edna Montgomery, Larry Bremer, Mrs. Fred Bremer, Joan Betts, M. H. Bowman, Gene M. Fortin, Glenn A. Scheare, Commodity Credit Corporation, a public corporation, and all parties similarly situated, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 24, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Q. Royce, Salina, Kan. (E. S. Hampton, H. H. Dunham, Jr., H. G. Engleman, C. Stanley Nelson and Jack N. Stewart, Salina, Kan., were with him on the brief), for appellant.

Milton P. Beach, Asst. U. S. Atty., Kansas City, Kan. (William C. Farmer, U. S. Atty., Topeka, Kan., Neil Brooks, Asst. Gen. Counsel, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Donald A. Campbell, Atty., U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., Giles H. Penstone, Atty. in Charge, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Kansas City, Mo., and Harold A. Houske, Kansas City, Mo., Atty., U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, were with him on the brief), for the United States, appellee.

L. F. Cushenbery, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen. (John Anderson, Jr., Atty. Gen., Robert E. Hoffman, Asst. Atty. Gen., D. Arthur Walker, William E. Cunningham, Arkansas City, Kan., John M. Bremer, Oberlin, Kan., Kenneth Clark, Hill City, Kan., Ray C. Sloan, Alex M. Fromme, Joseph W. Fromme, Hoxie, Kan., were with him on the brief), for State of Kansas ex rel., appellees.

Before BRATTON, Chief Judge, and HUXMAN and MURRAH, Circuit Judges.


HUXMAN, Circuit Judge.

This action was filed by the State of Kansas for the benefit of the persons named in the complaint against the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, herein called Hartford, in the District Court of Decatur County, Kansas, and was thereafter removed to the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. The action was brought to recover the value of grain delivered by the parties in interest...

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