Metropolitan Life Insurance v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Appellate Court for the Fourth District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Johnson county; the Hon. A. K. Vickers, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright
The State’s attorney of Johnson county brought an action of debt, in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, in the circuit court of said county, against the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and M. M. Maddox, to recover the statutory penalty for a violation of the act in force July 1, 1891, (Laws of 1891, p. 148,) prohibiting any life insurance company from making or permitting any discrimination between insurants of the same class and equal expectation of life. The declaration contained five counts, and charged that the defendant the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company was a life…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Noecker v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1878
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- Franklin Life Insurance v. People ex rel. AtwoodIllinois Supreme Court · 1903
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