National Life Insurance Co. of the United States v. National Life Insurance
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FEOM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT. ' The appellant commenced this suit in equity against the defendants on the eighteenth day of July, 1905, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, for the purpose of obtaining an injunction against the corporation defendant, restraining it and its manager, the defendant D. G. Drake, at Chicago, Illinois, from receiving, and the Chicago postmaster and…
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APPEAL FEOM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT. ' The appellant commenced this suit in equity against the defendants on the eighteenth day of July, 1905, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, for the purpose of obtaining an injunction against the corporation defendant, restraining it and its manager, the defendant D. G. Drake, at Chicago, Illinois, from receiving, and the Chicago postmaster and the letter carriers named as defendants from delivering, mail-matter directed to “National Life Insurance Company,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Peckham
The record shows that the defendant company was first incorporated in Vermont in 1848 by act of the legislature, under the name “ National Life Insurance Company of the United States,” but in 1858 the legislature of that State altered the name to “ National Life Insurance Company,” and this was ten years prior to the incorporation of the Washington, D. C., corporation. The defendant company has ever since that time maintained the name given it in 1858, and it was in use by it when, in 1860, it was admitted to do business in Illinois. It established a business office in Chicago prior to 1868,…
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