Massachusetts Benefit Life Ass'n v. Lohmiller
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United Ktates for the Southern District of Illinois. The Massachusetts Benefit Life Association, appellant, is a corporation •of the state of Massachusetts, engaged in the business of “life insurance on the assessment plan,” and had complied with the requirements of an act of the general assembly of the state of Illinois, approved June 22, 1893, which authorized its transaction of business in that state, and was operating therein…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United Ktates for the Southern District of Illinois. The Massachusetts Benefit Life Association, appellant, is a corporation •of the state of Massachusetts, engaged in the business of “life insurance on the assessment plan,” and had complied with the requirements of an act of the general assembly of the state of Illinois, approved June 22, 1893, which authorized its transaction of business in that state, and was operating therein accordingly. The appellee John C. Lolmiiller, at the March term, 1893, of the circuit court for Adams county, in that state, had…
1Opinion of the CourtSeaman, District Judge
By this bill the complainant invokes the equity jurisdiction of Unq circuit court of the United States for a decree pronouncing a judgment obtained against the complainant upon purported default in the circuit court of Adams county, 111., “to be null and void, and to have been rendered without due, legal, and proper process/’ and enjoining any enforcement of said judgment. If redress can be granted upon the allegations contained in the bill, it is manifest that an injunction is necessary to make it effectual. The appeal is taken from an order denying the preliminary injunction prayed for,…
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