National Fire Insurance Company Hartford v. Thompson

MR. JUSTICE BUTLER delivered the opinion of the Court. This is one of 155 suits brought by stock insurance companies to have ? 6283, Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1919, adjudged invalid and to restrain the enforcement of an order of the state superintendent of insurance promulgated October 9, 1922, on the ground that the section and order are repugnant to the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. In each case there was an application to a court of three judges for an interlocutory injunction. 28 U. S. C., ? 380. It was denied, without prejudice to renewal upon condition specified, in 114 cases of which this is one, and it was granted in 41 cases. 34 F.2d 185. This is an appeal from the denial of plaintiff's application. 28 U. S. C., ? 345(3).