Travellers' Insurance v. Heath
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1879, No. 337. Assumpsit by John Heath against the Travellers’ Insurance Company, of Hartford, Connecticut, to recover back money paid under an execution upon a judgment which was subsequently reversed by the Supreme Court.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1879, No. 337. Assumpsit by John Heath against the Travellers’ Insurance Company, of Hartford, Connecticut, to recover back money paid under an execution upon a judgment which was subsequently reversed by the Supreme Court. The insurance company, on January 30th 1873, brought an action of debt in .the Common Pleas, No. 2, of Allegheny county, on a bond given by Thorne, John Heath and Andrew E. Baum to the company. The company was a Life and Accident Insurance Company, and the bond dated July 25th…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
After reversal of the judgment obtained by the present plaintiff in error against Robert Thorne and his sureties, it was finally determined, on the second trial, in accordance with the judgment of this court, reported in 30 P. F. Smith 15, that the insurance com-*338pa ny had no right to recover the amount of the premiums, &c., for which suit was brought, for the reason that the company, during the time that Thorne, acting as its agent, collected the same, was doing business within this Commonwealth in direct contravention of the law relating to foreign insurance companies. It was held in that…
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