Wisconsin Supreme Court, 1878

Charter Oak Life Insurance v. Sawyer

Wisconsin Supreme Court · Decided January 15, 1878 · Byan

44 Wis. 387

Cases that cite this one

9 later published cases cite this decision.

Kentucky Finance Corp. v. Paramount Auto Exchange Corp. (Supreme Court of the United States 1923)
Miller Brewing Co. v. Capitol Distributing Co. (Utah 1937)
State ex rel. Ætna Insurance v. Fowler (Wis. 1928)
Loveland v. Warner (Or. 1922)
Ashurst v. Arnold-Henegar-Doyle Co. (Ala. 1918)
American Food Products Co. v. American Milling Co. (Wis. 1912)
Fergus v. City of CoLumbus (Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Franklin County, Civil Division 1898)
Sunny South Lumber Co. v. Neimeyer Lumber Co. (Ark. 1896)
Hart v. Livermore Foundry & Machine Co. (Miss. 1895)

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Opinion of the Court

ByaN, O. J.

Insurance companies in other states are bound *388by statute to certain prescribed compliances, in order to authorize them to transact the business of insurance in this state. But compliance with that statute is not necessary to enable them to take securities in this state for debts due to them by residents of the state.

And if it ever were a doubtful question whether corporations of one state could maintain suits in another state, it is no longer so. Such suits are now supported by judicial decisions in all the states. It would be intolerable injustice if a creditor corporation in one state could not sue its debtor in another. Such corporations, denied judicial process against their debtors in the courts of the debtors’ domicile, might well exclaim, as Chancellor Keht, I think, once said: Quod genus hoe hom-inum? quaere huno tarn barbara, morem permittit patria? Hospitio prohibemur arenal.

By the Oourt. — The order of the court below is affirmed.

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