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JOHN HANCOCK MUTUAL LIFE INS. CO. v. COMM. OF INS.

349 Mass. 390 (1965)

208 N.E.2d 516

JOHN HANCOCK MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY vs. COMMISSIONER OF INSURANCE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 23, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Duggan (George E. Donovan & Daniel J. Johnedis with him) for the petitioner.

David W. Hays, Assistant Attorney General, for the respondent.

Joseph P. Rooney & Richard M. Reilly, for Life Insurance Association of America, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Donald R. Grant & David J. Blattner, Jr., for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Frederick G. Fisher, Jr., S. Donald Gonson, & Harold Hestnes, for Prudential Insurance Company of America, and Edward L. Lane & Richard J. Walsh, for Boston Mutual Life Insurance Company, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Irving Abramson, Everett E. Lewis, & Leonard Greenwald, of New York, for Insurance Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, KIRK, SPIEGEL, & REARDON, JJ.

KIRK, J.

This is a petition for review pursuant to G.L.c. 175, §§ 22A; 108, cl. 2 (a); 132 and 192. The case was reported by the single justice without decision for the determination of the full court upon the pleadings, a statement of agreed facts and exhibits.

We state, in somewhat condensed form, the agreed facts. The petitioner, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company (Hancock), is a mutual life insurance corporation organized under the laws...

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