Page:United States Reports, Volume 209.djvu/344

 OCTOBER TERM, 1907. Statement of the C,2e. 209 U.S. Eastern Division, for the purpose of obtaining an injunction against the corporation defendant, restraining it and its man- ager, the defendant D. G. Drake, at Chicago, Illinois, from re- ceiving, and the Chicago postlnaster and the letter carriers named as defendants from delivering, mail-matter directet to "National Life Insurance Company, Chicago, Illinois," to the company so designated, on the ground that, in fact, such mail- matter was intended for the complainant, even though not addressed to it. An answer of the corporation defendant and that of its manager was duly lled and served, to which the complainant filed a replication. After a haring it was ad- judged by the Circuit Court "that the defendant, National Life Insurance Company, is entitled to have delivered to it such mail as may come to the post-office at Chicago addressed 'National Life Insurance Company, Chicago, Illinois,' unless such mil shall also bear the street number of the office of the National Life Insurance Company of the United States of America, or shall be in some other way designated, upon the exterior of the cavelope or wrapper containing such m0Jl-imt- ter, or otherwise, as designed for the National Life Insurance Company of the United States of America, and not for the National Life Insurance Company. Wherefore, it is further ordered, adjudged and decreed that the bill of complaint herein, as emcmied, be and the same is dismissc<l for want of equity." This judgment was affirmed by the Circuit Court of Appeals. Upon the trial, among others, the following facts were agrecd upon: An insurance company known as the National Life Insurance Company of the United States of Amcrica was duly incorpo- rated by special act of Congress in the year 1868. Its chief office anti place of businc was, by its charter, located in the city of Washington, District of Cohilnbia. The corporation thereupon entered upon the life insurance business and con- tinued to transact that business and to seek new busings of that kind until 1881. k

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