Carroll v. Greenwich Ins. Co. of NY
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF IOWA. The -facts are stated in the opinion. Sections 1754, 1755, 1756 and 1757 of the code of Iowa do not yiolate or infringe § 6, Art. I, Iowa const., as they operate equally upon every person within the relations and circumstances provided for, and the class of persons affected thereby is a natural and proper class for legislative purposes, and not Arbitrarily created by the legislature.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF IOWA. The -facts are stated in the opinion. Sections 1754, 1755, 1756 and 1757 of the code of Iowa do not yiolate or infringe § 6, Art. I, Iowa const., as they operate equally upon every person within the relations and circumstances provided for, and the class of persons affected thereby is a natural and proper class for legislative purposes, and not Arbitrarily created by the legislature. Cooley Const. Lim., 6th ed., 480; Magoun v. Illinois Trust & Sav. Bank, 170 U. S. 294; Minneapolis Ry. Co. v. Beckwith, 129 U.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
This is a bill brought by a number of fire insurance companies, incorporated in States other than Iowa, to enjoin the auditor of that State from enforcing §§ 1754, 1755 and 1756 of the Iowa Code, 1897. The ground of the bill is that these sections are invalid under the state constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. There is a reference also to Article 1, section 10, and an oblique suggestion that the law impairs the obligation of contracts. The defendant demurred,, and the Circuit Court issued an injunction as prayed, which was made perpetual by…
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