Murphy v. Hobbs

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hutchison, J.:

This is a mandamus action commenced in the district court of Sedgwick county by S. W. Murphy against Charles F. Hobbs, as commissioner of insurance of the state of Kansas, to require the commissioner to issue a license to the petitioner authorizing him to do business as a life insurance agent.

The plaintiff set out in his petition that he had held such a license and was fully qualified to continue doing so, but that a complaint had been filed with the commissioner against him, and after a hearing before the commissioner his license was…