Sweeney & Co. v. Brown

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Richardson

Affirming.

The decisive question on this appeal is the sufficiency of the petition charging libel, when tested by a demurrer. William T. Sweeney was engaged in general insurance and brokerage business under the firm name of Sweeney & Co., in the city of Louisville, Jefferson county, Ky., where he resided, 'and Frank H. Brown was engaged in the same kind of business, under the name of Brown & Martin, in the same city, where he also resided.

The Employers’ Liability Assurance Corporation of London, England, was a foreign corporation, organized under the laws…