Dawson v. National Life Insurance Co. of America
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk District Court. — W. S. Ayres, Judge. Action to recover damages consequent upon fraud alleged to bave been practiced in the purchase of three shares of stock in the Des Moines Life Insurance Company. From judgment entered on the verdict, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
corporations: officers: fldustockholders”10 shares^predenof proof”’’"" The Des Moines Life Insurance Company was organized on the mutual plan about 1885, and so continued under various forms of organization until about January 1, ' 1908, when it was incorporated under the laws of Iowa as a legal reserve life insurance comPanyj with a capital stock of $100,000 divided into 1,000 shares of the par value of $100 each. Its business expanded so that, in the fall of 1911, nearly $30,000,000 of insur*364anee was in force. The health of its president, C. E. Rawson, failed, and the burden of managing the…
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