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 OCTOBER TERM 1907.- tatnmt of t C the year 1905 and up to May 1, 1906, was about 200 per day for each business day. The defendant F. E. Coyne was the por at Chicago up to the eighth of January, 1906, since the commencement of this suit, and on that date Fred A. Busse. was appointed and has since acted  such pcetmaster. The other individual defendants are the mail carriers in that city for the territory in which the complinnt's place of burness is situated. The corporation defendant was organized and incorporated by an act of the legislature of Vermont on the thirteenth day of November, 1848, under the nme of "National Life Insur- ance Company of the United States." By another act of the legislature, approved October 7, 1858, the nme of the com- pany was hned to "National Life Insurance Company," and since that time its nne ha been continuously and is now "National Life Insurance Company." The company wa duly admitted to do busings in the State of Illinois on the fifth of October, 1860, and has done business in that State continuously from that time to the present. It has maintained since some time prior to 1868 a branch office in the city of Chicago, and has done business continuously at that branch office since its establiAhment tip to the prment time. That office since March I, 1895, has been in charge of the defendant D. G. Drake, as its mnje r. During the period from 1881 to 1900 the buine of this corporation in the State of Illinois increased from 190 policies to 3,846 policies. It has in all more than 70000 policyholders, and the average number of pieces of mail-matter received by it and D. G. Drake, its manager, at the office of the company in the Marquette Building, in Chicago, and intended for them, or one of them, pieces per day for each business day. There had been received for some years prior to 1905, at the Chicago post-office, numerous pieces of mail-matter every day, addressed simply "National Life Insurance Company,. Chicago, Illinois." Dur the year 1905 the average number

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