Legal Opinion

State ex rel. Continental Insurance v. Doyle

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided August 15, 1876PublishedCited by 6 opinions

APPLICATION for a Momdamtts. After tlie license of the Contmental Instvranee Company of the city of New York, to transact business in this state, had been revoked hy the secretary of state of Wisconsin, in accordance with the order made in the foregoing action of The State ex rel.

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APPLICATION for a Momdamtts. After tlie license of the Contmental Instvranee Company of the city of New York, to transact business in this state, had been revoked hy the secretary of state of Wisconsin, in accordance with the order made in the foregoing action of The State ex rel. Drake v. Doyle, that company presented a petition to this court for a writ of memdarrms, commanding said secretary of state to cancel or annul the order of revocation, and that the petitioner might he restored to all its rights and authority to transact business in this state which it possessed before such…

1Opinion of the CourtRyan, C. J.

In granting a peremptory mandamus to the secretary of state to revoke the license of the relator in this case (State ex rel. Drake v. Doyle, ante, 175), we spoke with just severity of the utter mala fides of a foreign insurance company coming here under a voluntary and advantageous license of the state, upon condition not to harass citizens of the state dealing with it, by removing actions on its policies from the state court of the vicinage to distant and expensive federal courts. The papers submitted to us in support of the present application go far to satisfy us that the removal of the…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Attorney General v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1874
  2. Weed v. . the Panama Railroad CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1858
  3. Bass v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1874
  4. Milwaukee & Mississippi R. R. v. FinneyWisconsin Supreme Court · 1860

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. People Ex Rel. Lodes v. Department of HealthNew York Court of Appeals · 1907
  2. Neu v. VoegeWisconsin Supreme Court · 1897
  3. State ex rel. White v. DickersonNevada Supreme Court · 1910
  4. State ex rel. Taylor v. City of SuperiorWisconsin Supreme Court · 1900
  5. People ex rel. Agins & Klugerman, Inc. v. Board of Health of the Department of HealthAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1921

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