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Show INSURANCE PEOPLE DENY CONSPIRACY Companies in Answer As-sert As-sert Right to Quit Writing Writ-ing Insurance. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, July ?9. Ono hundred anrt twenty-two Are Insurance com pan let filed In the mate supreme court today their answer to ths quo warranto war-ranto proceedings Instituted by the attorney at-torney reneraL. Tha companies denied that they had conspired to leave th state and said their withdrawals were Individual Individ-ual and voluntary. Tha answers, of which over 100 were tiled In substantially the same form, deny that the companies have entered Into any combination to cripple the financial credit of aClasourl or to deny the people of the state the iift-ht to protect their property by Insurance. The companies Insist, however, that they have the rlvht to cease wrltlnar Insurance In-surance In Missouri whenever they deem proper. Tha companlea claim that to deny them the right to cease to manage business In the state or punish them for their determination de-termination to tease business, whether acting Individually or In concert, la to deny to the companies the equal protection protec-tion of the lawa secured hv the fourteenth four-teenth amendment to the federal constitution. |