German Alliance Insurance v. Hale
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OP ALABAMA. The facts, which involve the constitutionality of certain provisions of the Code of Alabama, are stated in the opinion.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OP ALABAMA. The facts, which involve the constitutionality of certain provisions of the Code of Alabama, are stated in the opinion. The statute of Alabama (Cod.e of 1896, § 2619), attacked as unconstitutional, is not a condition to the doing of business in the State imposed on foreign corporations; neither is it a penalty put upon one class of litigants; neither is it a part of the costs of one class of cases. It is a discrimination imposed upon a part of the class, to-wit, fire underwriters, and not upon others, who…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hablan
This action was brought in one of the courts of Alabama by the defendant in error, Hale, on a policy of fire insurance issued by the German Alliance Insurance Company, a New York corporation.
The policy covered “lumber and square timber while stacked on the banks of Byrne’s .Mill Pond near Bay Minette, Baldwin County, Alabama, said lot of lumber and timber containing 300,000 feet,” etc.
Upon the petition of the defendant, the case was removed into the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Alabama, where a verdict was returned for-$5,198.93 in favor of the plaintiff.…
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