Legal Opinion
Morris & Co. v. Skandinavia Insurance
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 13, 1929No. 450PublishedCited by 108 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Butler
In April, 1925, petitioner filed its declaration in the circuit court of Harris county, Mississippi, in an action to recover $50,000 from respondent, a Danish corporation, on an insurance policy. Thereupon the sheriff served a summons upon the state insurance commissioner, and the clerk of the court mailed a copy addressed to respondent at its home office in Copenhagen. There being diversity of citizenship, respondent removed the. case to the United States district court for the Southern District of Mississippi, and filed a motion to quash and plea to the jurisdiction on the ground that…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- General Investment Co. v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1922
- Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co. v. McKibbinSupreme Court of the United States · 1917
- Simon v. Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1915
- Old Wayne Mut. Life Assn. of Indianapolis v. McDonoughSupreme Court of the United States · 1907
- Southern Pacific Co. v. DentonSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
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3Cited by108 opinions
- Baldwin v. Iowa State Traveling Men's Assn.Supreme Court of the United States · 1931
- Tozer v. Charles A. Krause Milling Co.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1951
- Brown ex rel. Estate of Brown v. Lockheed Martin Corp. ex rel. Martin-Marietta Corp.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2016
- Home Insurance v. DickSupreme Court of the United States · 1930
- Connecticut General Life Insurance v. JohnsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
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