Federal Old Line Life Insurance v. Sullivan

This is an appeal from a decree entered after the trial of two actions brought against the state insurance commissioner, and consolidated for trial upon the representations of the parties to both actions that the controversies grew out of the same facts and presented substantially the same legal questions.

One of the actions was brought by the Federal Old Line Life Insurance Company (Mutual), a corporation, which was first authorized by the state of Washington to do business as a mutual life insurance company in 1937. The principal averments of the complaint were as follows:(1) That, on…