Yates v. People ex rel. Anderson
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Superior Court of Cook county; • the Hon. Axel Chytraus, Judge, presiding. This is a petition for mandamus, filed in the Superior Court of Cook county on January 17,1903, by the People upon the relation of Frank 0. Anderson, defendant in error, against Henry Yates, as insurance superintendent, plaintiff in error, praying' that the writ of mandamus be directed to the insurance superintendent, requiring him to issue a certificate' of authority to the…
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Writ of Error to the Superior Court of Cook county; • the Hon. Axel Chytraus, Judge, presiding. This is a petition for mandamus, filed in the Superior Court of Cook county on January 17,1903, by the People upon the relation of Frank 0. Anderson, defendant in error, against Henry Yates, as insurance superintendent, plaintiff in error, praying' that the writ of mandamus be directed to the insurance superintendent, requiring him to issue a certificate' of authority to the Continental Insurance Company to transact the business of insurance according to the provisions and privileges, granted in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
The main question, presented by the record in this case, is whether or not, at the time of the filing of the petition for mandamus herein, and prior thereto, the charter of the Gontinentallnsurance Company hadbecome extinct.
The plaintiff in error claims that he, as insurance superintendent, was under no obligation to issue the certificates of authority applied for, because, under section 3 of the act of 1874 entitled “An act in regard to the dissolution of insurance companies,” in force July 1, 1874, (2 Starr & Curt. Ann.-Stat.—2d ed.—p. 2285), the charter of the Continental Insurance Company…
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