Hickman v. State
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On error to the Circuit Court of the county of Middlesex. On complaint of the commissioner of banking and insurance, an action was brought in the Circuit Court of the county of Middlesex, in the name of the state, against John P. Hickman, for negotiating in the city of New Brunswick, as agent for the Mercantile Mutual Eire Insurance Company, of Philadelphia, a corporation of the State of Pennsylvania, a contract of insurance of certain property in New Brunswick against loss…
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On error to the Circuit Court of the county of Middlesex. On complaint of the commissioner of banking and insurance, an action was brought in the Circuit Court of the county of Middlesex, in the name of the state, against John P. Hickman, for negotiating in the city of New Brunswick, as agent for the Mercantile Mutual Eire Insurance Company, of Philadelphia, a corporation of the State of Pennsylvania, a contract of insurance of certain property in New Brunswick against loss or damage by fire, neither said company nor said agent being authorized to transact business in the State of New Jersey,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Collins, J.
On April 9th, 1875, the insurance laws of this state were revised and compiled under the following title: “An act to provide for the regulation and incorporation of insurance companies. I. As to the insurance companies of other states doing business within this state. II. As to the insurance companies of this state.”
*501In the official Revision and later publication of the General Statutes, these subdivisions are omitted from the title, but in the edition printed by order of the governor, in 1875 (at page 72), and in the original act on file in…
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