STATE FARM MUT. AUTO. INS. CO. v. SHORT


202 A.2d 278 (1964)

STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff, v. Robert A. SHORT, Insurance Commissioner of the State of Delaware, Defendant.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle.

May 8, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Prickett, of Prickett & Prickett, Wilmington, for plaintiff.

Thomas Herlihy, III, Deputy Atty. Gen., for defendant.


MARVEL, Vice Chancellor.

This action filed herein on June 11, 1962 seeks to establish plaintiff's contention that it is not subject to a special tax levied annually on fire insurance companies doing business in Delaware, such tax being in the form of a levy on gross premiums collected by such companies for the insuring against loss by fire of property within the limits of the State of Delaware, Title 18 Del.C. § 2705. The stated purpose of such statute, is that...

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