State ex rel. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance v. Grimm
Supreme Court of Missouri
Prohibition. (1) The cirncit court has no jurisdiction, because: (a) the service of process was insufficient; and (b) the courts of Missouri have no jurisdiction over foreign insurance companies in causes of action arising out of business clone in other States with citizens of those States. Sec. 7042, R. S. 1900; Insurance Co. v. French, 18 How. (U. S.) 404; St. Clair v. Cox, 106 U. S. 350; Life Ass’n v. McDonough, 204 U. S. 8; Hunter v. Ins. Co., 218 IJ.
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Prohibition. (1) The cirncit court has no jurisdiction, because: (a) the service of process was insufficient; and (b) the courts of Missouri have no jurisdiction over foreign insurance companies in causes of action arising out of business clone in other States with citizens of those States. Sec. 7042, R. S. 1900; Insurance Co. v. French, 18 How. (U. S.) 404; St. Clair v. Cox, 106 U. S. 350; Life Ass’n v. McDonough, 204 U. S. 8; Hunter v. Ins. Co., 218 IJ. S. 586; Stewart v. Harmon, 8 Fed. 190; Berry v. Indemnity Co., 46 Fed. 439; Plate Glass Co. v. Ins. Co., 55 Fed. 27; Sawyer v. Ins. Co., 46…
1Opinion of the CourtWoodson, J.
— This is an original proceeding instituted in this court by the petitioner, seeking to prohibit the respondent, as judg*e of the circuit court of the city of St. Louis, from further proceeding with the trial of the case of Florence W. Rawn v. Pacific Life Insurance Company, the petitioner, now pending in said court.
Because of the unsettled or undetermined facts of the case, in order to get a full and correct view of the legal propositions presented by the record, it will be necessary to set out the petition filed in this court, asking for a preliminary rule of prohibition, and the return…
2Cases cited26 opinions
- St. Clair v. CoxSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
- International Textbook Co. v. PiggSupreme Court of the United States · 1910
- Chambers v. Baltimore & Ohio RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1907
- Old Wayne Mut. Life Assn. of Indianapolis v. McDonoughSupreme Court of the United States · 1907
- Barrow Steamship Co. v. KaneSupreme Court of the United States · 1898
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- Vilter Mfg. Co. v. RolaffCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1940
- Elliott v. JohnstonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1956
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