People ex rel. Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. State Treasurer

Graves, Ch. J.

This application for mandamus has originated in a difference of opinion between the treasurer and the relator, respecting the amount of specific tax wbicb was by law demandable from the company for the year 1873.

The company is a Connecticut corporation, doing business in this state under the regulations prescribed by the legislature, and it claims to be working as a mutual company, without capital stock issued to shareholders, but embracing the holders of policies as members, who are rendered proportionably interested in the property and profits.

It further claims that it aims to…