Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
AotioN brought originally in the supreme court under the authority of sec. 3200, Stats. 1
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinions were filed December 1, 1915:
WiNsnow, C. J.
The plaintiff, a domestic mutual life insurance corporation, doing business on the level-premium plan, brings action in this court against the state to recover license taxes paid to the state under protest amounting to $482,193.23 in 1912 and $505,643.22 in 1913.
The license taxes were levied under sec. 1220, Stats. 1911 (being sec. 51.32, Stats. 1913), and the plaintiff’s claim is that the statute is void (1) because it denies the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the state constitution and by the Fourteenth amendment…
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