Franklin Life Insurance v. People ex rel. Yancey

This was an action in debt against the appellant company by the People, on the relation of one James Yancey, instituted by R. R. Fowler, the State’s attorney of Williamson county, to recover the penalties provided by section 3 of the act entitled “An act to correct certain abuses and prevent unjust discrimination of and by life insurance companies,” etc., approved June 19, 1891, (Hurd’s Stat. 1899, p. 978,) for the violation of the provisions of section 1 of the act, in, as the declaration alleged, allowing or paying to one Ed. L. Dwyer a special rebate of the premium on a policy of life…