Keehn v. Charles J. Rogers, Inc.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment granted plaintiff in the circuit court for Wayne county, in a suit by plaintiff, an Illinois receiver for an insolvent Illinois mutual insurance company, to collect an assessment on a mutual policy of insurance. The defendant, a former policyholder, appeals, claiming that the Michigan mutual insurance law bars plaintiff from recovery because no demand for payment of an assessment was made on the defendant until after a year had elapsed from the termination of the policy in question.

The facts are not in dispute. In 1937 Central Mutual Insurance Company…