The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-03-08
HE SITS IN STATE
Insurance Commissioner Snider
Presides as Judge,
In the BIC HillmOn Insurance
Case Today.
HAS HEJURISDICTION2
Attorneys For the Company Say
He Hasn't.
Warm Words Are Exchanged
Between the Lawyers.
HAS HEJURISDICTION2 2

The celebrated Hillmon case. which
has been in the courts for fifteen years,
came before Insurance Commissioner $.
III snider this morning. The attorneys
Mrs. Sallie E. Hulmon-Smith have
brought the case before Commissioner
Snider by a lengthy petitition setting
forth Injustice and fraud at the hands OF
the New y ork Life, Mutual Life of New
York and Connecticut Mutual Life In
surance companies, by which Hillmon
was insured in the sum of $4,000 The
petition asks that the license Of these
companies to operate in Kansas be re-
voked.
Judge snider's court was III session
this morning for two hours and during
that time the lawyers we're engaged in a
hight as TO the Jurisdiction of Judge Sni-
der To consider the case, as it is now pend
ing in the United States circuit court and
rs yet for trial ia Topeka ia a few weeks.
Ihis point was not decided at this morn
ing session, but there is little doubt even
IN the minds of the attorneys for the In
surance companies but that Judge Snider
VIII decide that he can. Inasmuch as the
insurance commissioner is vested with
almost arbitrary discretion he may not
only try the case, but If he sees lit he
may comply with the petition and ex-
clude any one of the three companies
named, or all of them. from operating i'm
litigation would arise.
The insurance companies are repre-
sented by the firm of Gleed. Ware 81
Gleed of Topeka, and Messrs. Green and
Barker of Lawrence, while the plaintiffs
were represented by Samuel a. Riggs of
Lawrence, j.. b. Wheat of LeavenwOrth.
q. +. Hutchins of Kansas City. r.. D. Hite
and Quinton E Quinton Of Topeka.
AT the opening of the controversy Mr.
Hite explained what the plaintiffs in-
a
commissioner TO protect not only 81 rs
IlllmOn bat all the other policy holders
ln these companies in Kansas from Grim
inal, unfair and contemplate treatment
M want action taken 10 protect the pol
icv holders. We do not propose to enter
into the merits of the case except in SO
far as to show the unfair treatment we
have received and the criminal practice
resOrted to by the defendants Their
course has been an open scandal and
should not be tolerated. We do not in-
tend to abandon the case i'm the federal
court or to influence it in any way by this
one
Eugene Ware for the defendants re-
pliend to Mr. Hite by saying, ssThe dis
likes and quarrels of attorneys, and an
old tight which has been in the courts
for 10 these many years, is not a subject
of investigation by an insurance com
missioner. There is no question bat that
If evil has been done, the state and fed
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