Seamans v. Temple Co.

The plaintiff is receiver of a mutual fire insurance company, organized and doing business at Milwaukee, under a statute of Wisconsin which authorizes such companies to do business in that state and elsewhere. This company has never complied with the statutes of Michigan by filing the prescribed statement and ■obtaining the requisite authority to do business here. How. Stat. § 4331 et seq. It appears, however, that it has *402done business in most, if not all, of the states, their laws to the contrary notwithstanding; and, although its officers testify that it has had no agents, it is shown that…