Noyes v. Byxbee
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Habeas Corpus, in the Court of Common Pleas of New Haven County. The court issued the writ upon the application of the plaintiff, who alleged that he was held in custody by the defendant.
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Habeas Corpus, in the Court of Common Pleas of New Haven County. The court issued the writ upon the application of the plaintiff, who alleged that he was held in custody by the defendant. The defendant, who was sheriff of New Haven County and keeper of its jail, made the following return to the writ:— In obedience to the foregoing writ I have.the body of the said Benjamin Noyes here before the court, and, for the cause of his detention by me, I state that on the 30th day of October, 1877, John W. Stedman, Insurance Commissioner of the state, at said New Haven, signed and issued and delivered…
1Opinion of the CourtPark, C. J.
The authority under which the insurance commissioner assumed to act in committing the plaintiff for contempt in refusing to be sworn and to answer questions ¡with regard to the financial condition and management of ; certain life insurance companies, is to be found in the act of j 1877, the part of which, important to the present case, is as .follows: “The insurance commissioner may at.any time i investigate the financial condition, affairs and management of any life insurance company incorporated by, or doing business *385in this state, and may require any such company to produce, j and may…
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