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Show LIFE INSURANCE I FIGHT BEGINS I Big Companies After I Salt Lake. I Want License Issued to a H Utah Institution in Mon- H tana Revoked. H Local Company Will Resist Any Such. Action, and a Bitter Legal Fight Will Likely Follow. BB HELENA, Mont., June 10. On the application of counsel represent- ufl ing the general agents of eight U leading life Insurance companies H operating in Montana, the Supreme H court today issued an alternative writ jljfl of mandate compelling State Auditor .7. H. Calderhcad to revoke the license of 91 a life Insurance and Investment com- iHfl panj' of Salt Lake, or show caure why IH he has not done so. The writ waa made fljl returnable Monday. HI It is alleged in the application for BH the writ that the company has not HI compiled with the laws of the State and HI that the State Auditor, who is the head HI of the Department of Insurance of the IH State, is unlawfully using his office to nl further the interests of the company. HI It is charged that Mr. Calderhead Is qa HI stockholder and director of the Salt HI Lake company, and that as head of II the insurance department of the State HI he has Issued to that company a cer- ! tlficate of authority to do business in the State when he knew that the com- HI pany was not complying with the laws HI of Montana. It Is alleged that Mr. HI Calderhead has Issued a letter recom- HI mending that company, which letter Is HH being used for advertising purposes. H State Auditor Calderhead claim? he II has no knowledge of violations of the law by the Salt Lake company. Mr. H Calderhcad is k Popullfrt and was flH elected State Auditor on the Fusion ticket four years ago. HI Frank Pierce, attorney for the Con- HI tinental Life Insurance and Investment iH company, of which Gov. Heber M. Wells is president, when shown the above dis- IH patch from Helena, indicated that the jH action would be vigorously resisted. HH "We know nothing about the caie," HH said Mr. Pierce, "except what Is con- JIH talned In a telegram from our reprc- vHTH sentatlve In. Helena advising us that vHH mandamus proceedings have been ll brought to cancel our right to do bust- gl ness there We have not seen the com- ll plaint and do not know what is in it, HH but we suppose It raises the question HflH of our right to write special board con- HH tracts. The contracts we are writing HlH in Montana have been taken before the HH courts of last resort in several States HH and have been upheld. We are not vlo- 'jll latlng the laws of Montana and if any (Hil one says we are he has got to prove HH it on us." lH The special board contracts alluded HlH to by Mr. Pierce are contracts written s for members of local boards of the HiV company, in which the fee for the pol- HH Icy, or some portion of it. is- paid for i In services rendered by the member in HHiil looking after the company's Interests. UEI It Is claimed by rival Insurance com llil panics that this Is In violation of Mon- ) tana's anti-rebate law. 111 |