Cain v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Amite county. Hon. E. E. Brown, Judge. . E. A. Cain was convicted of unlawfully acting as agent for a fire insurance business and appeals.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Amite county. Hon. E. E. Brown, Judge. . E. A. Cain was convicted of unlawfully acting as agent for a fire insurance business and appeals. The section of the chapter on insurance in Mississippi Code 1906, construed by the court in this case, are as follows: “Section 1248. Any person.who shall do or perform any of the acts or things mentioned in the laws governing insurance companies, the doing or performing of which is there provided, shall constitute such person the agent of the company, for any insurance company not organized under or incorporated by the…
1Opinion of the CourtCook, J.
Appellant was convicted upon an indictment charging him with soliciting fire insurance contracts, and delivering a certain insurance policy, and collecting the premium therefor, which policy was written by a company not authorized to do business in this state. There is no substantial conflict in the evidence for the state and the evidence for the defendant below. In our view of the facts, and according to our construction of sections 1248. 2615, and 2616 of the Code of 1906, the defendant was guilty, both upon' the state’s evidence and his own testimony.
It is contended by appellant that he…
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