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Decided on : Jan-01-1876
Home Insurance Company v. City Council of Augusta - 93 U.S. 116 (1876) U.S. Supreme Court Home Insurance Company v. City Council of Augusta, 93 U.S. 116 (1876) Home Insurance Company v. City Council of Augusta 93 U.S. 116 ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA Syllabus 1. Where a statute of, or authority exercised under, a state is drawn in question on the ground of its repugnance to the Constitution of the United States, or a right is claimed under that instrument, the decision of a state court in favor of the validity of such statute or authority, or adverse to the right so claimed, can be reviewed here. 2. An insurance company conformed to the requirements of the act of the Legislature of Georgia, and received from the Comptroller-General a certificate authorizing it to transact business in that state for one year from Jan. 1, 1874. That act does not, expressly or by implication, limit or restrain the exercise of the taxing power of the state, or of any municip...
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Home Ins. Co. v. Baltimore Warehouse Co. - 93 U.S. 527 (1876) U.S. Supreme Court Home Ins. Co. v. Baltimore Warehouse Co., 93 U.S. 527 (1876) Home Insurance Company v. Baltimore Warehouse Company 93 U.S. 527 ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND Syllabus 1. A policy of insurance taken out by warehouse keepers, against loss or damage by fire on "merchandise, their own or held by them in trust, or in which they have an interest or liability, contained in" a designated warehouse covers the merchandise itself, and not merely the interest or claim of the warehouse keepers. 2. If the merchandise be destroyed by fire, the assured may recover its entire value, not exceeding the sum insured, holding the remainder of the amount recovered, after satisfying their own loss, as trustees for the owners. 3. Goods described in a policy as "merchandise held in trust" by warehousemen, are goods entrusted to them for keeping. The phrase, "held in trust," i...
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Doyle v. Continental Insurance Company - 94 U.S. 535 (1876) U.S. Supreme Court Doyle v. Continental Insurance Company, 94 U.S. 535 (1876) Doyle v. Continental Insurance Company 94 U.S. 535 APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN Syllabus 1. The court reaffirms the decision in Insurance Company v. Morse, 20 Wall. 445, that an agreement to abstain in all cases from resorting to the courts of the United States is void as against public policy and that a statute of Wisconsin requiring such an agreement is in conflict with the Constitution of the United States. 2. A state has the right to impose conditions, not in conflict with the Constitution or the laws of the United States, to the transaction of business within its territory by an insurance company chartered by another state or to exclude such company from its territory, or, having given a license, to revoke it with or without cause., 3. The Legislature of Wisconsin enacted t...
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