People ex rel. Hughes v. Penn Mutual Life Insurance
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action of debt. Error to the Circuit Court of Knox County; the Hon. George W. Thompson, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1905.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justioe Dibell
delivered the opinion of the court.
A statute of this state, passed in 1891, prohibits any life insurance company from making or permitting any discrimination between insurants of the same class and equal expectation of life, and provides a penalty for its violation, to be recovered in the name of the people of the State of Illinois, one-half of which penalty is to be paid into the treasury of the county in which the offense is committed, and the other half to the informer. Lewis E. Hughes was an agent of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company. After he ceased to be such…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. CarsonIllinois Supreme Court · 1894
- Franklin Life Insurance v. People ex rel. YanceyIllinois Supreme Court · 1903
- Franklin Life Insurance v. People ex rel. AtwoodIllinois Supreme Court · 1903