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- Title: John Pemberton, Liquidator of the Merchants' Insurance Company, Appellant v. Edward Lockett
- Author : United States Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 01, 1858
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 77 KB
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This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Columbia. The bill was filed in the court below, by the respondents, against the appellant, Pemberton, liquidator of the Merchants' Insurance Company, in the city of New Orleans, representing the interest of that company, which was insolvent, for the purpose of establishing a title to certain moneys in the possession of the Government, which had been received under the convention between the United States and Great Britain, of the 8th of February, 1853. The money had been awarded by the umpire, under that convention, to the company, which had been subrogated to the rights of one of the claimants for compensation against Great Britain, in the case of the brig Creole. The umpire allowed to the company $28,460. The complainants below set up, in their bill, a title to one-half of this fund, as the agents and attorneys of Pemberton in the prosecution of the claim.