The AMERICAN HOSPITAL AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Petitioner,
v.
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, Respondent.
United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
April 9, 1957.
April 9, 1957.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
J. D. Wheeler, San Antonio, Tex., Boyle, Wheeler, Gresham, Davis & Gregory, San Antonio, Tex., of counsel, for petitioner.
Robert B. Dawkins, Asst. Gen. Counsel, James B. Truly, Atty., Earl W. Kintner, Gen. Counsel, Alvin L. Berman, Atty. Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D. C., for respondent.
George R. Cross, Associate Counsel George S. Hanson, Gen. Counsel., New York City, for amicus curiae National Ass'n of Insurance Agents.
John S. Hamilton, Jr., Chicago, Ill., Franklin J. Marryott, Boston, Mass., L. J. Carey, Detroit, Mich., M. S. Chenault, Mason City, Iowa, J. P. Craugh, Utica, N. Y., James B. Hamilton, Owatonna, Minn., W. O. Head, Dallas, Tex., Leslie P. Hemry, Boston, Mass., John W. Joanis, Stevens Point, Wis., M. L. Landis, Van Wert, Ohio, Chase M. Smith, Chicago, Ill., J. M. Sweitzer, Wausau, Wis., Garl Watkins, Seattle, Wash., for American Mut. Alliance, Chicago, Ill.
Lawrence Pomeroy, New York City, Palmer, Serles, Delaney, Shaw & Pomeroy, New York City, of counsel, for National Ass'n of Ins. Brokers, Inc.
Whitney North Seymour, New York City, George G. Gallantz, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, New York City, of counsel, for Health Ins. Ass'n of America.
Hugh B. Cox, H. Thomas Austern, Henry P. Sailer, Washington, D. C., Covington & Burling, Washington, D. C., of counsel, for Life Ins. Ass'n of America and American Life Convention, amici curiae.
Edmund G. Brown, Atty. Gen., of California, Harold B. Hass, Deputy Atty. Gen. of California, for the State of California.
John Ben Shepperd, Atty. Gen. of Texas, Will D. Davis, Appellate Asst., Austin, Tex., for the State of Texas.
A joinder to the brief of amicus curiae of the State of Texas was filed by the Attorneys General of the following States: New York, Louisiana, Maryland, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Florida, Idaho, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Utah, Connecticut.
Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and CAMERON and JONES, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.
JONES, Circuit Judge.
The petitioner, the American Hospital and Life Insurance Company, is a corporation of Texas. Its principal or home office is in San Antonio, Texas. It is engaged in the business of writing health and accident insurance. It has been licensed to do business and is doing business in Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Tennessee, as well as in the State of Texas...
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