Court Opinion

ID: 9768922
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 13:56:16.570992+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:49.588042
License: Public Domain

LEEDY, Judge.
I concur in the result reached by the principal opinion and also in that part of it down to and including that part of the second paragraph on page 4 reading as follows: “Since foreign insurance corporations are not required to designate a registered office and registered agent under the .general corporation laws, the construction placed upon § 351.375 subd. 4 by State ex rel. Whiteman v. James, [364 Mo. 589, 265 S.W.2d 298], has no application in the present case.” The ruling just quoted effectively disposed of the pivotal issue in the instant proceeding, but, notwithstanding this, the opinion goes on and would gratuitously disapprove State ex rel. Whiteman v. James “to the extent that it holds that the last sentence of § 351.375 is applicable to foreign corporations.” The parties in the instant proceeding had not taken any such position. As the author of the Whiteman opinion, I would reexamine that case when the question of its correctness has been challenged and is a live issue, so that it may be considered upon adequate briefs. For these reasons, my concurrence is limited as above indicated.