State v. Wheeler
Nebraska Supreme Court
Exceptions from the district court for Douglas county. Tried below before Hopewell, J. The act of 1889 did not provide for the collection of a tax; it merely prescribed a condition precedent to the transaction of business in Nebraska by foreign insurance companies. (People v. Thurber, 13 111., 554; Walker v. Springfield, 94 Id., 364; III. Mut. Fire Ins. Co. v. Peoria, 29 Id., 180; East St. Louis v. Wehrung, 46 Id., 392; Euoatv.
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Exceptions from the district court for Douglas county. Tried below before Hopewell, J. The act of 1889 did not provide for the collection of a tax; it merely prescribed a condition precedent to the transaction of business in Nebraska by foreign insurance companies. (People v. Thurber, 13 111., 554; Walker v. Springfield, 94 Id., 364; III. Mut. Fire Ins. Co. v. Peoria, 29 Id., 180; East St. Louis v. Wehrung, 46 Id., 392; Euoatv. Chicago, 48 Id., 172; Trustees v. Pome, 93 N. Y., 313.) Even if it be considered a tax, it is not imposed upon a municipality or its inhabitants, but upon foreign…
1Opinion of the CourtMaxwell, J.
The defendant in error was informed against in the district court of Douglas county under the provisions of chapter 47 of the acts of the legislature of the state of Nebraska of 1889, entitled “An act to require insurance companies, organized under the laws of other states and doing business in Nebraska, to pay a duty or rate for the support of fire companies composing the fire department of any city or village.”
The information charges that the defendant on or about the 6th day of July, A. D. 1889, in said county of Douglas, did then and there effect and procure to be effected fire insurance…
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