People ex rel. New York Fire Insurance Exchange v. Phillips

Hinman, J.:

This is certiorari to review respectively the determinations of the State Superintendent of Insurance (1) in ordering the New York Fire Insurance Exchange to remove an unfair discrimination in rates against buildings equipped with a fire prevention device known as the Conran sprinkler head, and (2) in refusing, after hearings and a determination that such discrimination existed, to reopen the proceeding, on the ground that he was without power to reopen it when once determined and on the further ground that certiorari was pending at the instance of the said exchange, ordering him…