Doyle v. Continental Insurance
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of tbe United States for the Western District of Wisconsin. The bill of complaint alleges that the complainant, the Continental Insurance Company of the city of New York, is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Connecticut, and a citizen of that State.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of tbe United States for the Western District of Wisconsin. The bill of complaint alleges that the complainant, the Continental Insurance Company of the city of New York, is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Connecticut, and a citizen of that State. That prior to the passage of the act of the legislature of the State of Wisconsin, entitled “ An Act to provide for the incorporation and government of fire and inland navigation insurance companies,” approved March 4, 1870, the complainant had established agencies, opened offices,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hunt
The case of Insurance Company v. Morse, 20 Wall. 445, is the basis of the bill of complaint in the present suit. We have carefully reviewed our decision in that case,' and are satisfied with it. In that case, an agreement not to remove any suit brought against it in the State courts of Wisconsin into the Federal courts had been made by the company, in compliance with the Wisconsin statute of 1870. The company, neverthe*538less, did take all the steps required by tbe United States statute of 1789 to remove its suit with Morse from the State court into the Federal courts. Disregarding that action,,…
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