State ex rel. Hopkins v. Travis

*258The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The state brings this proceeding to require the superintendent of insurance to pay into the state treasury certain sums of money paid under protest to him on a disputed interpretation of certain provisions of statute governing the right of fire insurance companies chartered in other states and in foreign countries to transact business in Kansas. These insurance companies are made defendants, and they assume the burden of the defense, the superintendent merely taking the attitude of awaiting an authoritative interpretation of the pertinent…