State ex rel. Hart v. Commercial Insurance

The relator, as Auditor of State, instituted this action to obtain a writ of mandate against appellee to compel it to file in his office annual reports, and further to permit him, as such auditor, to have access to all of its books and papers, for the purpose of examining every detail of its business in the interest of its policy holders. The petition for the writ discloses that appellee, “The Commercial Insurance Company of New Albany, Indiana,” was- originally incorporated under a special act of the legislature, entitled, “An act to incorporate the New Albany Insurance Company”, approved…