State ex rel. Aetna Life Insurance v. Schively

Citations

• 68 Wash. 503
• 123 P. 784
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 1322

Syllabus

<p>Insurance — Regulation — License to do Business — Kinds of Business Authorized — Statutes — Construction. The insurance code, Laws 1911, p. 216, § 79, having provided that domestic corporations previously organized having a certain amount of capital may continue to transact their business under the provisions of the act, the clause in § 84, p. 219, prohibiting all companies from engaging in both a life and liability business “except as provided in § 79,” does not authorize such double business by foreign companies previously doing business in this state, since the proviso and exemption of § 79 is expressly restricted to domestic companies only.</p> <p>Statutes — Passage—Mistake— Construction — Evidence — History of Act. Where an act contains no ambiguity, latent or patent, a mistake in the act as passed and approved by the governor cannot be shown by extrinsic evidence relating to the history of its passage and proposed amendments, agreed to in committee, but not reported through the mistake of a committee clerk.</p>