Tucker v. Columbian National Life Insurance
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract against the Columbian National Life Insurance Company, a corporation organized under the laws of this Commonwealth, on a judgment for $285.60 obtained by the plaintiff in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County in the State of Alabama.
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Contract against the Columbian National Life Insurance Company, a corporation organized under the laws of this Commonwealth, on a judgment for $285.60 obtained by the plaintiff in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County in the State of Alabama. Writ inj the Municipal Court of the City of Boston dated March 7, 1916. The defendant’s answer alleged that by the record of the Alabama court it appeared that the judgment declared upon was rendered on December 18, 1915, and was void and of no effect by reason of the following facts: That the plaintiff’s claim upon which the alleged judgment was based…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is an action on a judgment recovered in an Alabama court against the defendant as a non-resident. The judgment was by default and was based upon service on the insurance commissioner of Alabama, whom the defendant in 1909 had appointed to be and remain its agent for that purpose, as required by the Alabama statute. By force of that statute that appointment was to “continue in force irrevocably as long as any liability of the company remains outstanding in this State.” The certified copy of the judgment record of the Alabama court was in evidence and is printed in the record at bar. It…
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