Mutual Benefit Life Insurance v. County of Martin
Supreme Court of Minnesota
The county treasurer of Martin county being unable to determine whether plaintiff company was entitled to record a certain agreement for the extension of a mortgage in its favor without payment of the registration tax required by Laws 1907, c. 328, the treasurer indorsed the fact of his uncertainty upon the instrument and the company paid the amount of the tax to the clerk of the district court for that county.
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The county treasurer of Martin county being unable to determine whether plaintiff company was entitled to record a certain agreement for the extension of a mortgage in its favor without payment of the registration tax required by Laws 1907, c. 328, the treasurer indorsed the fact of his uncertainty upon the instrument and the company paid the amount of the tax to the clerk of the district court for that county. The plaintiff having brought the hearing of the matter whether the amount should be repaid to it before the district court, the facts being stipulated, the court, Quinn, J., made…
1Opinion of the CourtElliott, J.
This is an appeal from an order denying the right of the appellant to the return of certain money paid by it to the clerk of the district court under the provisions of chapter 328, p. 448, Laws 1907.
The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, a foreign corporation, with its home office in Newark, New Jersey, engaged in business in Minnesota under the authority of the laws of this state, as required by section 1625, R. L. 1905, on March 1, 1907, paid to the state treasurer of the state of Minnesota a sum equal to two per cent, of all premiums received in cash or otherwise by it in Minnesota for…
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