Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States v. Host
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county: B. F. DuNwiddie, Judge. This is an action to restrain the commissioner of insurance from revoking the license issued to the plaintiff to do business in this state. The facts are mostly undisputed.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county: B. F. DuNwiddie, Judge. This is an action to restrain the commissioner of insurance from revoking the license issued to the plaintiff to do business in this state. The facts are mostly undisputed. The complaint alleges, in effect, that the plaintiff was incorporated in 1859 under the Laws of New York of 1853, and the amendments thereto, for the incorporation of life and health insurance companies; that by sec. 87 of the general insurance laws of the state of New York, first enacted as ch. 118 of the General Laws of New York for the…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed February 21, 1905:
Cassoday, O. J.
The facts in this case are practically undisputed and largely stipulated. The plaintiff was incorporated in 1859, under the laws of New York then in force, as a domestic life insurance corporation. It continued to do such business under such laws and the several amendments thereto from that time down to the controversy in question, which arose about two years ago, and has also continued such business since. For more than thirty years prior to the controversy in question the plaintiff had been doing such insurance business in…
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