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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 589.
    Mortensen, Commissioner of Insurance, v. Security Insurance Co.
    Argued March 22, 1933.
    Decided March 27, 1933.
    
      Mr. J. E. Messerschmidt, Assistant Attorney General of Wisconsin, with whom Mr. James E. Finnegan, Attorney General, was on the brief, for appellant.
   Per Curiam:

Decree affirmed. Terral v. Burke Construction Co., 257 U.S. 529; Prudential Insurance Co. v. Cheek, 259 U.S. 530, 544; National Fire Insurance Co. v. Wanberg, 260 U.S. 71, 75; Fidelity & Deposit Co. v. Tafoya, 270 U.S. 426, 434; Hanover Fire Insurance Co. v. Harding, 272 U.S. 494, 507.

Mr. Justice Brandéis

dissents upon the authority of Doyle v. Continental Insurance Co., 94 U.S. 535, and Security Mutual Life Insurance Co. v. Prewitt, 202 U.S. 246.

Messrs. Samuel Levin and Wm. Marshall Bullitt were on the brief for appellee.