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Show INSURANCE LAW FIGHT More Than One Hundred Hun-dred Companies Signify Signi-fy Their Intention of With drawing Their Business From State Jefferson City, Mo, Julv 20 One hundred and twenty-two fire Insur ance comanles filed in the state supreme su-preme court today their answer to the quo warranto proceedings instituted by the attorney general. The com psniee denied thai thej had conspired to ;w,- the slate and said their individual in-dividual withdrawals were Individual The answers, of which more than 20 were filed but all in substantially the same form, deny that the companies com-panies have entered into any combination combin-ation to cripple the financial credit of Iisouri or to deny the people or the state the right to protect their property by insurance The com panles, insist however that the have the liuht to cease writing insurance In Missouri whenever they deem proper. The companies claim that to deny them the right to cease doing business busi-ness in the state Qr punish them for their going to cease business, whether wheth-er acting individual or in concert is to deny to the companies the equal protection of the law secured by the fourteenth amendment to the federal constitution |