Legal Opinion
Knights of the Modern Maccabees v. Commissioner of Insurance
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided November 30, 1908No. Calendar No. 22,743PublishedCited by 1 opinion
Mandamus by the Knights of the Modern Maccabees and others to compel James Y. Barry, commissioner of insurance, to vacate an order requiring relators to comply with the provisions of Act No. 180, Pub. Acts 1907.
1Opinion of the CourtGrant, C. J.
Relators are incorporated and doing business under the provisions of chapter 212, 2 Comp. Laws, being Act No. 119, Pub. Acts 1893, as amended. Section 1 of that act provides:
“Such associations shall be governed by this act and shall be exempt from the provisions of the insurance laws of the State, except as provided by this act.”
In 1907 the legislature passed the following act:
“Section 1. Every policy of insurance issued or de*694livered within this State on or after the first day of January, nineteen hundred eight, by any life insurance corporation doing business within the State shall contain…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- Citizens' Life-Insurance Co. v. Commissioner of InsuranceMichigan Supreme Court · 1901
- Modern Order of Praetorians v. HollmigTexas Supreme Court · 1907
- Lake v. Minnesota Masonic Relief Ass'nSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1895
- McCormick v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1891
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- Read, Ins. Com'r v. Royal Neighbors of AmericaSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1947