The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-09
STATE INSURANCE. FUND IS TIED UP
 BY COURT WRIT.
Boyd And Nolen Called Into Court To De-
 fend Acts
(state Capital Bureau)

MONTGOMERY, Ala, May S. L. A. Boyd and Roy l.. Nolan, members ofthe state board of administration, to- day were cited to appear in the chan. cery division of the Montgomery cir cult court and defend their acts under then law giving the state authority to carry it's own insurance, to create an insurance fund for the purpose and to discontinue policies of insurance here tofore placed with insurance com panies.
 Twenty representatives of insurance companies filed the complaint and pc fitioned the court for permanent in. junction preventing the board of admin istration from taking action under the insurance fund law. The constitution a1ity of the law was brought into ques- ficn, the allegation being that require xaents of the constitution were not met in the passage of the act.
 The circuit court granted a temporary restraining order preventing the board from enforcing the law until an investi- Eation by the court. The petitioners filed $1 900 bond. A date for the hearing on the petition for a perma- nent injunction will be set after tic board has answered the complaint.
 The specific allegations of the com pIainants are:
 i. That the act is invalid because # was not passed in compliance with the rules of the house of representa- tives.
 2. That the caption of the act does not contain description of the sub ject matter as required by the consti- tuition of Alabama.
 8 That the state board of adminis- fration has not complied with the terms of the law but has exceeded it's author fly and is administering it in an s'un- warranted and illegal' manner which is 'dangerous to the welfare of the state.'
 With the filing of the complaint, 1t became known that representatives of Snsurancec ompanies have been asking Investigations for several weeks and that the decision to bring the proceed ings .Eas reached after the investigators had submitted their report.
 Ball and Beckwith, Montgomery at xorneys, submitted the complaint as counsel for the petitioners. Those who signed the bill and appeared in support of the petition are: A. J. Goodwin, Calhoun county; H. Clay Smith. Gull. man; $. A. Folkes, Dallas; F. W. Stewart, Dallas; II. B. Meyers, Eto- yah; E. c. Porter, Houston; Ed $. Moore and Charles l.. Candy, Jeffer- son; ". $. Eastep, Lauderdale; c. S. Davis, Madison; A. c. Howard, Ma xeng0; Tom, Boon, Mobile; Sylvian Baum, A. M. Mead and l.. A. Porter, Montgomery J. J. Donald, Talladega ]. A. Duckworth and Charles Morris, Tuscaloosa R. w. Cranford, Walker R. J. Goode, Jr., Wilcox.
 Irregularities Charged
 The first allegation is that the bill was not passed in accordance with the rules of the house in that it was at first defeated, that motion to recon eider was made and defeated and that, in disregard of a rule which prohibits the reconsideration of an issue two times, the bill was reconsidered the second time and on this reconsideration was rassed.
 If the allegations made. do moi show the inyalidity of the law, the pc titioners alleged that the board of ad ministratiOn is administering the law Improperly and to the detrimentFof the Interests of the state. The charge is made that the state has entered into