State Ex Inf. McKittrick v. American Insurance

The question for decision is whether a temporary injunction should be issued to restrain respondents from collecting rates in excess of a rate level ordered in 1922 pending the determination of a quo warranto proceeding to oust them.

In May, 1939, the Attorney General, as relator, filed this original action in quo warranto in this court to oust respondents, a number of fire and windstorm insurance companies, from doing business in this State. Pleas to the jurisdiction were first and separately disposed of in favor of the information. 346 Mo. 269, 140 S. W. (2d) 36. Thereafter in December,…