Wisconsin v. Pelican Insurance
Supreme Court of the United States
ORIGINAL. This was an action of debt, commenced in this court by the State of Wisconsin against a corporation of Louisiana.
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ORIGINAL. This was an action of debt, commenced in this court by the State of Wisconsin against a corporation of Louisiana. The declaration was as follows: “The plaintiff, The State of Wisconsin, and one of the States of the United States, now comes and complains of the defendant, The Pelican Insurance Company of New Orleans, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Louisiana, in a plea of debt — “ For that, whereas the plaintiff, the said State of Wisconsin, on the 16th day of September in the year 1886, at the county of Dane in the said State of Wisconsin,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
This action is brought upon a judgment recovered by the State of Wisconsin in one of her own courts against the Pelican Insurance Company, a Louisiana corporation, for penalties imposed by a statute of Wisconsin for not making returns to the insurance commissioner of the State, as required by that statute. The leading question argued' at the bar is whether such an action is within the original jurisdiction of this court.
The ground on which the jurisdiction is invoked is not the nature of the cause, but the character of the parties, the plaintiff being one of the States of the Union, and the…
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