State v. Dilbeck

Suit by the Attorney General, in the name of the state, against W. D. Dilbeck and other named individual defendants, and the Bankers’ Life Insurance Company (the latter claiming under change of name to exercise the rights and franchises of the Texas Mutual Life Insurance Company created by special act of the Legislature in 1870).

'“The suit was a proceeding in the nature of a quo warranto,- having two purposes: (1) To call in question the right of the individual defendants to exercise the corporate rights, privileges, and franchises under which they were assuming to act; and (2) to oust or…