In an appeal from an order distributing the proceeds of life insurance policies owned by a receivership estate on a pro rata basis, the order is affirmed where plaintiff’s alleged diligence in securing a beneficial interest was not cause for him to take priority when the interest he actually acquired was no better than the interests acquired by supposedly less-diligent claimants.
Read Quilling v. Trade Ptnrs., Inc., No. 08-2328
Appellate Information
Argued: June 17, 2009
Decided and Filed: July 15, 2009
Judges
Opinion by Judge Graham
Counsel
For Appellant:
Lincoln J. Knauer, Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP, Springfield, MO
For Appellee:
Bruce S. Kramer, Borod & Kramer, P.L.C., Memphis, TN
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