LIVERPOOL INS. CO. v. MASSACHUSETTS


77 U.S. 566 (1870)

10 Wall. 566

LIVERPOOL INSURANCE COMPANY v. MASSACHUSETTS.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. B.R. Curtis and J.G. Abbott, for the company, plaintiff in error:

Mr. Charles Allen, Attorney-General of Massachusetts, contra:


Mr. Justice MILLER delivered the opinion of the court.

The case of Paul v. Virginia,* decided that the business of insurance, as ordinarily conducted, was not commerce, and that a corporation of one State, having an agency by which it conducted that business in another State, was not engaged in commerce between the States.

It was also held in that...

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