Commonwealth v. Vrooman
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 90, July T., 1894, by plaintiff, from judgment of Q. S. Phila. Co., March T., 1894, No. 358, for defendant on a special verdict. Indictment for issuing a policy of insurance in violation of act of Feb. 4, 1870, P. L. 14. The jury returned the following special verdict.
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Appeal, No. 90, July T., 1894, by plaintiff, from judgment of Q. S. Phila. Co., March T., 1894, No. 358, for defendant on a special verdict. Indictment for issuing a policy of insurance in violation of act of Feb. 4, 1870, P. L. 14. The jury returned the following special verdict. “And now, to wit, March 20, 1894, the jury impaneled and duly sworn to try the issue joined in above case between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Samuel B. Vrooman, the defendant, find the following facts and present the same as a special verdict in the case : :- “ The defendant, acting for himself and as…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Williams,
This case raises a question of constitutional law that does not seem to have been decided by the courts of this state. The facts are that in 1870 the legislature passed and the governor approved an act entitled “ An act to prevent the issue of unauthorized policies of insurance.” Section first made it unlawful for any person, partnership or association, to issue any *314policy of insurance against fire without authority to do so expressly conferred by a charter of incorporation given according to law; and declared all policies issued without such authority to be…
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