Pervangher v. Union Casualty & Surety Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
Prom the circuit court of Warreu county. Hon. George Anderson, Judge. Mrs. Pervangher, appellant, was plaintiff, and the casualty and surety company, appellee, was defendant in the court below. The suit was upon an accident insurance policy. The summons in the case was served upon one Moore, as an agent of the company. The defendant entered a special appearance, filing a plea denying that Moore was its agent. The facts are apparent from the opinion of the supreme court.
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Prom the circuit court of Warreu county. Hon. George Anderson, Judge. Mrs. Pervangher, appellant, was plaintiff, and the casualty and surety company, appellee, was defendant in the court below. The suit was upon an accident insurance policy. The summons in the case was served upon one Moore, as an agent of the company. The defendant entered a special appearance, filing a plea denying that Moore was its agent. The facts are apparent from the opinion of the supreme court. The court below adjudged the service of the summons on Moore as ineffectual to give jurisdiction of the defendant, and the…
1Opinion of the CourtTerral, J.
The legislature, by chap. 65 of annotated code (1892), has authorized foreign insuraxice companies to take risks and transact business of insurance within this state upon certain conditions prescribed in said chapter, one of which conditions is that such insurance company shall have an agent within this state upon whom service of process on behalf of said company may be had, § 2323; and in default thereof that the person who solicits insurance for a company, or takes or transmits an application for insurance, etc., * * * shall be held to be the agent of the company for which the act is done…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Sadler v. Mobile Life InsuranceMississippi Supreme Court · 1882
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