Metropolitan Life Ins. v. City of Paris
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 105. — PROCEEDINGS BY THE CITY OP PARIS AGAINST THE METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY FOR DOING BUSINESS IN SAID CITY WITHOUT PAYING A CITY LICENSE. Appeal from Bonrbon Circuit Court. E. L. Stout, Circuit Judge. Defendant fined in the city court and appealed to the circuit court which rendered the same fine and in the appellate court the judgment is affirmed.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op ti-ie Court by
¥m. Rogers Olay,
Commissioner — Affirming.
The license ordinance of the city of Paris imposes an annual license tax upon the conduct of life insurance companies, as follows: Upon companies writing industrial insurance, $100; npon companies writing ordinary life insurance, $25. The appellant, which is a life insurance company doing business upon the industrial plan, refused to pay the license tax of $100. Thereupon it was prosecuted for doing business without a license, and was fined in the police court. From a judgment therein entered an appeal was taken to the Bourbon…
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