People Ex Rel. City of Chicago v. Commercial Union Fire Insurance

The appellant filed a petition for a writ of mandamus against the Commercial Union Fire Insurance Company and H. C. Eddy to require Eddy to file a verified and true report of the gross premiums for fire insurance received by him as agent of the insurance company in the city of Chicago from March, 1896, to the year ending July 1, 1919, as required by act of July 1, 1895, requiring that all foreign fire insurance companies shall report premiums received for any insurance effected or agreed to be effected in the city, (Smith’s Stat. 1925, p. 429,) and pursuant to an ordinance passed in 1896…