City of New Orleans v. Virginia Fire & Marine Ins.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
^PPEAL from the Third District Court, parish of Orleans. Monroe, First — A foreign insurance company which causes its policies to be put in circulation within the municipal limits, taking risks and deriving profit from among the community, obtains thereby all the advantages and performs all the necessary acts within those boundaries , usual to the insurance business of companies domiciled in the city, and is, hence, doing an insurance business in the place.
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^PPEAL from the Third District Court, parish of Orleans. Monroe, First — A foreign insurance company which causes its policies to be put in circulation within the municipal limits, taking risks and deriving profit from among the community, obtains thereby all the advantages and performs all the necessary acts within those boundaries , usual to the insurance business of companies domiciled in the city, and is, hence, doing an insurance business in the place. Second — It matters not whether such foreign company does such business directly itself from the home office, or through the medium of a…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Levy, J.
The same question being involved, the five suits against the Insurance Companies named above, have, by consent of parties, been consolidated, and the decision herein rendered will be applicable to each of the cases thus consolidated, the evidence being the same in all of' them. The City of New Orleans, in its petition, alleges that, it is authorized and empowered to impose a license on "all trades, professions and callings, carried on in said city; that said licenses are required to be taxed, annually, in the month of December; that they expire…
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