Commonwealth Mutual Fire Insurance ex rel. Stevens v. Sharpless

Citations

• 12 Pa. Super. 333
• 1900 Pa. Super. LEXIS 242

Syllabus

<p>Insurance — Foreign corporations — Doing business.</p> <p>A contract of insurance on property in Pennsylvania, with a foreign insurance company, irrespective of where made, is an attempt to do business in Pennsylvania, so as to be forbidden by the statutes unless certain conditions are complied with. Swing v. Munson, 191 Pa. 582, followed.</p> <p>Insurance — Unlawful contract — Foreign company — Assessment by courts ' of foreign state — Interstate comity.</p> <p>A contract of insurance was made with a Massachusetts company; the premium was paid to a local agent and the policy delivered in Pennsylvania by said agent; the insurance company was not authorized to do business in Pennsylvania, in which state the goods insured were located. Held, That a decree of the court in Massachusetts finding the insured defendants liable for certain assessments will not be enforced by the courts of Pennsylvania which, having in view public interests, will not lend their aid to the enforcement of an unlawful contract.</p>