Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois, Volume 106 |
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Page 16 - States or any foreign government, for any of the purposes specified in this act, direct ly or indirectly, to take risks or transact any business of insurance in this State, unless possessed of the amount of actual capital required of similar companies...
Page 17 - The term agent or agents, used in this section, shall include an acknowledged agent or surveyor, or any other person or persons who shall, in any manner, aid in transacting the insurance business of any insurance company not incorporated by the laws of this State.
Page 136 - Be it therefore enacted, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall have been...
Page 136 - Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 223 - common carrier" has, therefore, been defined to be one who undertakes for hire or reward to transport the goods of such as choose to employ him from place to place.
Page 16 - It shall not be lawful for any insurance company, association or partnership, incorporated by or organized under the laws of any other State of the United States, or any foreign government...
Page 16 - ... nor shall it be lawful for any agent or agents to act for any company or companies referred to in this section, directly or indirectly, in taking risks or transacting the business of fire or inland navigation insurance in this State...
Page 538 - ... appealed to the Appellate Court for the First District, where the judgment below was affirmed, and the case is brought to this court upon writ of error.
Page 137 - ... in every such action the jury may give such damages as they may think proportioned to the injury resulting from such death to the parties respectively for whom and for whose benefit such action shall be brought...
Page 22 - And it is a part of this contract that any person other than the assured, who may have procured this insurance to be taken by this company, shall be deemed to be the agent of the assured named in this policy, and not of this company under any circumstances whatever, or in any transaction relating to this insurance.
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| Title | Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois, Volume 106 |
| Author | Illinois. Supreme Court |
| Published | 1884 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 25 Jun 2007 |
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