United States v. Insurance Companies

Citations

• 89 U.S. 99
• 22 L. Ed. 816
• 22 Wall. 99
• 1874 U.S. LEXIS 1253

Syllabus

<p>1. Corporations created by the legislature of a rebel State while the State was in armed rebellion against the government of the United States, have power since the suppression of the rebellion, to sue in the Federal courts, if the acts of incorporation had no relation to anything else than the domestic concerns of the State, and they were neither in their apparent purpose nor in their operation hostile to the Union or in conflict with the Constitution; but were mere ordinary legislation, such as might have been bad there been no war or no attempted secession, and such as is of yearly occurrence in all the States.</p> <p>2. Such corporations may in proper cases sue under the Captured and Abandoned Property Act. ■</p>