Union Indemnity Co. v. Railroad Commission

The following opinion was filed October 20, 1925:

Jones, J.

It is the object of this opinion to state the grounds on which the decision announced October 9, 1925, was based. At the trial in the circuit court the point was urged for the first time by the counsel for the insurance commissioner that the application should be denied for the reason, as alleged, that the proposed transaction would be a fraud upon the statutes of Wisconsin regulating the merger or consolidation of insurance corporations and was therefore illegal and void. In the brief in this court, counsel for the insurance…