Hagler v. Security Mut. Life Ins.
District Court, N.D. Texas
At Law. Consolidated actions by David S. Hagler and others against the Security Mutual Life Insurance Company. On motions to quash the service of summons.
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At Law. Consolidated actions by David S. Hagler and others against the Security Mutual Life Insurance Company. On motions to quash the service of summons. Plaintiffs, administrators of John S. Hagler, deceased, brought two suits in the state court, thereafter removed to this court and consolidated, against the Security Mutual Life Insurance Company, a corporation chartered under the laws of the state of New York, and having its principal offices in the city of Binghamton, said state, to recover $10,000 on an insurance policy issued by said company on the life of the said John S. Hagler,…
1Opinion of the CourtJack, District Judge
(after stating the facts as aboive).
[1] The defendant being a nonresident life insurance company, the state of Texas had the right to impose upon it, as a condition precedent to its doing business in the state, such conditions as it might see fit. Therefore the provisions of the then existing law were valid and binding on defendant. Process was served on McCracken, who had been appointed agent of defendant company, in compliance with the law, at the time it obtained permission to do business in the state.
It is true that prior to¡ the filing of the suit defendant company had . passed…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Pennoyer v. NeffSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
- Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. SpratleySupreme Court of the United States · 1899
- Railroad Company v. HarrisSupreme Court of the United States · 1871
- Commercial Mutual Accident Co. v. DavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1909
- United States v. Cerecedo Hermanos Y CompañiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
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