The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-23
"DEAR SIR" EACH OTHER.
President Greene Writes Webb NC
Nall and Webb McNall
Writes Greene.

President Jacob L. Greene of the
Connecticut Mutual, and Webb McNall.
superintendent of insurance, are having
another bout, Mr.. Greene again de-
handing that Mr.. McNall issue license
for the Connecticut Mutual to continue
business in Kansas.
Mr.. Greene'S latest letter to Mr.. Nc
Nall is as follows:
Dear Strive are in receipt of your
favor of the 18th instant returning the
draft for $1O4 which we sent to pay the
admission fees for license to do bust
ness in your state for the ensuing year
We have taken note of our letter of
March 3rd instant to which you refer.
1t does not answer your request we
have complied with the statutory re-
quirementS for a renewal of our license
and that of our agents to continue bus
ness in Kansas, which title we are
now entitled to receive as heretofore.
We have noted that you refuse to is
sue the license because we have for 10
years successfully resisted the pay
ment of a claim founded on the pro-
duction of the corpse of Walters, and
alleged to be the corpse of one john W.
Hillmon, whom we have repeatedly
proved in your courts to have murder
ed Walters for the purpose of enabling
Hillmons wife to make this claim. The
question between US and the persons
now owning this claim is in the care of
competent courts, duly constituted by
law for the purpose of the trial of all
such matters. It is not pending in your
(, L,
nor can any personal action or interest
of yours bring it there Your attempt
to compel US to purchase this license by
abandoning our attempt to defend in
the courts where we have right to
be against this fraudulent claim, is
without warrant of law and is an in
reference with the course of justice in
its legally constituted methods
I'VE must therefore decline to accept
your letter of March 3rd instant as a
lawful or proper disposition of our re-
r,r.1f ell
new, that you issue to US and to our
agents the licenses to which we are by
law entitled; and we herewith again
forward the draft No. &c, 4S9. of the
city Bank of Hartford on the Fourth
National bank of New York, to your
official order, for $104, the same being
in full for the fees to which your de-
partment is by law entitled upon the
various documents filed by US therein,
in compliance with law
Mr.. McNan today replied to Mr..
Greene as follows:
Replying to your letter of the 18th
inst. wherein you return to me your draft
dated March 10, 1897, in the sum of
S104 and say that you insist on MAX
ing tender of the same to this de-
partment for fees that you are re-
qGired by law to pay-I again return
the same to you with the statement
that the Connecticut Mutual Life In
surance company is not indebted to this
department in the sum of $1O4, or in
any other sum, and for the reasons
stated in the letter from this depart
ment under date of March 3, 1897.
You state in your letter that you
have been for 10 years successfully re-
sisiting the payment of claim founded
upon the production of the corpse of
one Walters, alleged to be the corpse
of one John w. Hillmon, whom you
have repeatedly proved in our courts to
have murdered Walters for the pur-
pose of enabling Hillmon's wife to make
this claim If your statement is true
you have been resisting the claim for
one year prior to the death of Hillmon,
for the records in this state and in this
Office show that the he was killed in
Barber county on the 18th day of
March, 1879. Can it be possible with
the records of the Connecticut Mutual
Life Insurance company, you have been
SUCCESSFULLY resisting a claim before the
policy was written? Permit me to ask
if the other statements in your letter
are all as reliable as the statement
concerning the nineteen years transac-
ton?
"A gain, permit me to ask: What do
you mean when you use this language:
Whom we have repeatedly proved in
your courts to have murdered Walters
for the purpose of enabling Hillmon's
wife to make this claim2' Have you
forgotten that in five jury trials one
Jury found a verdict against you, an
you, another jury stood seven to five
which of these jury trials do you I'M