State Ex Rel. Long v. Mynatt

The original bill was filed in this cause by the State on the relation of John B. Long, Jr., Commissioner of Insurance and Banking, and charging that the defendant, Mynatt Funeral Home is engaged in the life insurance business in Tennessee without complying with the law regulating the life insurance business, relying upon Section 56-1101 and Sections 56-3206 and 56-3208 T.C.A. The forms and tenor of the contracts of insurance are shown by various exhibits to the bill.

The defendant, in his answer, denied that he was engaged in the business of issuing contracts of insurance and that he was…