Wright v. Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT -OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA. This case originated in a bill filed in the Circuit Court seeking to declare a dissolution of the insurance company, the sequestration of its assets, and have a receiver appointed with a view to winding up the affairs- of the association.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT -OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA. This case originated in a bill filed in the Circuit Court seeking to declare a dissolution of the insurance company, the sequestration of its assets, and have a receiver appointed with a view to winding up the affairs- of the association. On the sixth' of August, 1880, an insurance association was organized under the laws of Minnesota, known as the Bankers Association; after-wards, in 1884, its name was changed to the Bankers Life Association of' Minnesota. The general purposes of the association were to secure…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
the court.
This is a bill on the part of two dissatisfied holders of certificates, issued while the company was doing business on the assessment plan, to wind up the affairs and distribute the assets of what appears, so far as the record -discloses, to be a solvent and prosperous mutual insurance company with which others in interest are apparently satisfied. The Federal right alleged to be invaded, and the one" adjudicated upon, which gives a right of direct appeal prosecuted from the decree dismissing the bill to this court, is the constitutional guaranty against the impairment of the…
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