Smith v. St. Louis Mutual Life Insurance

The Chancellor :

On August 11, 1875, the complainants, as policy-holders of the St. Louis Mutual Life Insurance Company, a foreign corporation doing business in this state, filed a bill in this court, on behalf of themselves and all other policy-holders like themselves citizens of the state of Tennessee, against the said company and others, for the purpose, among other things, of attaching certain ibonds in the hands of the treasurer of the state, as superintendent or commissioner of insurance companies, and held in trust by him “as a security for risks taken by citizens of this state ” in…