UNITED STATES v. INSURANCE COMPANIES


89 U.S. 99 (____)

22 Wall. 99

UNITED STATES v. INSURANCE COMPANIES.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. G.H. Williams, Attorney-General, and Mr. John Goforth, Assistant Attorney-General, for the United States; Messrs. C.F. Peck and W.W. McFarland, contra.


Mr. Justice STRONG delivered the opinion of the court.

It may well be doubted whether under the pleadings in the court below the appellants have any right to raise the objection here that the companies plaintiff have now no legal existence, because incorporated after the attempted secession of Georgia from the Union, and before the close of the war. There was no plea that traversed directly the corporate existence of the plaintiffs. A general denial of the averments...

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