CARPENTER v. PACIFIC MUT LIFE INS CO OF CALIFORNIA (1939)

Supreme Court of California.

CARPENTER, Insurance Commissioner, v. PACIFIC MUT. LIFE INS. CO. OF CALIFORNIA et al.

L. A. 16182, 16221, 16222, 16245, 16246.

Decided: December 02, 1939

William H. Neblett, E. Walter Guthrie, A. H. McCurdy, Bettin, Painter & Wait, and Alfred F. MacDonald, all of Los Angeles, for appellants. Neblett, Warner & MacDonald, William H. Neblett, R. Dean Warner, LeRoy B. Lorenz, and W. Walter Guthrie, all of Los Angeles, for appellant and respondent William H. Neblett. Bettin, Painter & Wait, of Los Angeles, for appellants and respondents Vernon Bettin and William George Dickinson. Alfred F. MacDonald, of Los Angeles, in pro. per. U. S. Webb, Atty. Gen., John J. Flynn, Deputy Atty. Gen., Frank L. Guerena, of San Francisco, and Shepard Mitchell and Mitchell, Silberberg, Roth & Knupp, all of Los Angeles, for petitioner and respondent Samuel L. Carpenter, Jr., Insurance Commissioner of the State of California. O'Melveny, Tuller & Myers and Overton, Lyman & Plumb, all of Los Angeles, for respondent Pacific Mut. Life Ins. Co. of California. Hugh K. McKevitt, of San Francisco, for respondents Charles Ross Cooper et al. Rupert B. Turnbull, of Los Angeles, for respondents Rupert B. Turnbull et al. for themselves and for other noncancellable policyholders similarly situated and for Francis Adams for himself and for other noncancellable policyholders similarly situated. Manierre & Cuthbertson, of Los Angeles, for respondents George W. Manierre and B. Robert Getts on their own behalf and on behalf of all similarly situated policyholders. Kenyon F. Lee, of Los Angeles, for respondents E. B. Tilton et al. H. S. Dottenheim, of Los Angeles, for respondents Marshall D. Hall and Joseph C. McManus on behalf of themselves and other holders of noncancellable income policies. Neil S. McCarthy, of Los Angeles, for respondents Neil S. McCarthy on his own behalf, Ralph R. Huesman and Broadtown Investment Co. W. B. Etheridge, of Pasadena, for respondents Dr. Arthur B. Allen et al. Delvy T. Walton, of Los Angeles, for respondents David Lynn Openshaw et al. Albert E. Coger, of Los Angeles, for respondent Henry B. Senn. Herbert E. Freston, of Los Angeles, in pro. per. Jacob J. Lieberman and Aaron B. Rosenthal, both of Los Angeles, for respondents Robert J. Webb and Philip M. Klotznick for themselves and all other persons similarly situated. Lawler & Felix, of Los Angeles, for respondent R. Rabinowitz. Roscoe R. Hess and David R. Rubin, both of Los Angeles, for respondent Roscoe R. Hess. Chapman, Snider, Duke & Landis, of New York City, Hiram W. Johnson, Jr., of San Francisco, and Frank P. Doherty, of Los Angeles, for respondents G. C. Parsons, J. A. Marvin and G. R. Snider et al. on behalf of themselves and all other holders of noncancellable policies, and as members of a protective committee for holders of noncancellable income policies. Rex Hardy, of Los Angeles, for respondents Austin O. Martin and Rex Hardy. Ivan Merrick, of Seattle, Wash., for respondent William A. Sullivan, Insurance Commissioner of State of Washington. Arthur E. White, of Los Angeles, in pro. per. Oscar Lawler and Harold Judson, both of Los Angeles, for respondents George I. Cochran et al. Shattuck, Davis & Story, of Los Angeles, for respondents William A. Beckett et al. Paul Overton, of Los Angeles, for respondent Arthur D. Wunner. Latham, Watkins & Bouchard, of Los Angeles, for respondents C. N. Wesley et al. Bell, Boyd & Marshall, of Chicago, Ill., and Newlin & Ashburn, of Los Angeles, for respondents Wilbur G. Katz et al. Carl C. Katleman, of Los Angeles, for respondents Carl C. Katleman et al. for himself and all others similarly situated. Andrew J. Copp, Jr., of Los Angeles, in pro. per. Garnet C. Rainey, of Los Angeles, for respondent Ralph C. Hamlin. Chapman & Chapman, of Los Angeles, for respondents Rowe Sanderson et al. Hahn & Hahn, of Pasadena, for respondents Robert Casamajor et al. Ben S. Hunter, of Los Angeles, in pro. per. M. W. Purcell of Los Angeles, for respondents Clara M. Garunan et al. John P. Oliver, in pro. per. Loeb, Walker & Loeb, of Los Angeles, for respondents Harold S. Cook et al. William M. Rains, of Los Angeles, for respondents Edwin Janss et al. D. M. Ellison, of Baton Rouge, La., for respondent E. A. Conway, Secretary of State of Louisiana. Cosgrove & O'Neil and John N. Cramer, all of Los Angeles, for respondents Carroll C. Day, Harry C. Fabling, Joseph M. Gantz, Jack Paschall and Ralph J. Wetzel. A. A. Carmichael, Atty. Gen., of Alabama, for respondents J. Parker Evans, on behalf of himself and all other holders of active life noncancellable income policies issued in the State of Alabama who may wish to join with him in the proceeding. Ray Howard, of Los Angeles, for Percy A. Eisen. Henry Huntington, of Los Angeles, for Wales MacPerdue and Harry B. Robinson.