State Ex Rel. Biel v. Royal Neighbors of America

MABRY, Justice.

The State, ex rel. the Superintendent of Insurance, brought suit against a number of defendants organized as fraternal benefit corporations or societies in foreign states, and which theretofore and over a period of years licensed in this state as Fraternal Benefit Societies, to recover the statutory 2% upon the premiums collected over a long period of years. The claim is made that the defendant societies were doing business, in this state of a character similar to that authorized to be done only by old line life insurance companies, and that they are in fact insurance…