People v. Mutual Life Insurance
Appellate Court of Illinois
Debt, for a penalty. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Morgan County; the Hon. Cyrus Epler, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the May term, 1897. Affirmed. Opinion filed December 2, 1897.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Glenn
This was an action in debt to recover a penalty under an act of the legislature to correct certain abuses and prevent unjust discriminations of and by life insurance companies doing business in this State, between insurants of the same class and equal expectation of life, etc. The declaration contained three counts. To the first count the Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York demurred. The court sustained the demurrer and appellants stood by this count.
There is a copy of the act under which this suit is brought set out in this count which is as follows:
Comes now the plaintiff in the above entitled…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Covenant Mutual Benefit Ass'n v. ConwayAppellate Court of Illinois · 1882
- Bloomington Mutual Life Benefit Ass'n v. CumminsAppellate Court of Illinois · 1894
- People v. FeslerIllinois Supreme Court · 1893
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