Grain Belt Insurance v. Gentry

The grounds of reversal assigned herein are all predicated upon the alleged unconstitutionality of Section 11044-al, Code of 1927. With one qualification, the case is identical in its material facts with that of Midwest Mut. Ins. Assn. v. De Hoet, 208 Iowa 49. In the cited case, the statute was in effect at the time the contract of insurance was entered into. In the case at bar, the contract sued on was an existing contract at the time the statute in question went into effect. This is the distinction between the two cases. As pointed out in the cited case, the statute in question is purely…