Commonwealth v. Reinoehl
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 72, July T., 1894, by defendant, from judgment of Q.' S. Lancaster Co., Nov. T., 1893, No. 121, on verdict for Commonwealth. Indictment for doing insurance business without license. At the trial it appeared that defendant was an insurance agent in the employ of the Guarantee and Accident Lloyds of New York, an unincorporated association of one hundred indi- ' vidual underwriters of accident insurance.
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Appeal, No. 72, July T., 1894, by defendant, from judgment of Q.' S. Lancaster Co., Nov. T., 1893, No. 121, on verdict for Commonwealth. Indictment for doing insurance business without license. At the trial it appeared that defendant was an insurance agent in the employ of the Guarantee and Accident Lloyds of New York, an unincorporated association of one hundred indi- ' vidual underwriters of accident insurance. As their agent he issued a policy of accident insurance to B. E. Radcliff. The insurance commissioner of Pennsylvania, alleging that the Lloyds was a foreign company of New York,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Gbeen,
There is no question involved in the present contention except the question whether the defendant is liable to indictment and conviction under the 47th section of the act of May 1, 1876, P. L. 53. That section reads as follows :
“ Section 47. Any person transacting business within this commonwealth as the agent of an insurance company of any other state or government, without a certificate of authority, as required by the act to which this is a supplement, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced to pay a fine of five hundred…
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