# State ex rel. Waterworth v. Harty

> Supreme Court of Missouri · June 13, 1918 · 275 Mo. 59

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/8019836

## Case

- **Full name:** THE STATE ex rel. WATERWORTH v. A. L. HARTY,. Superintendent of Insurance
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Missouri
- **Decided:** June 13, 1918
- **Citations:** 275 Mo. 59; 204 S.W. 500; 1918 Mo. LEXIS 54
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court by Bond
- **Judges:** Bond
- **Cited by:** 2 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

BOND, C. J.
This is an application by petitioners as the rate-making representatives of “all the stock fire insurance companies doing business” in this State, for a “judicial review,” upon evidence to be heard by a commissioner, of the ruling of the Superintendent of Insurance, in refusing petitioners an increase of rates according to a schedule filed with him March 27, 1918.
The matters of original cognizance thus presented do not lie within the constitutional jurisdiction of ■ this court, which is “appellate only,” except as otherwise specified or directed in that instrument. [Const. 1875, art. 6, secs. 2 and 3; Ib., art. 8, sec. 9; Gantt v. Brown, 244 Mo. 1 . c. 300; R. S. 1909, sec. 5951.] The application is therefore dismissed without prejudice to “a proper action” in a court of competent original jurisdiction. [Laws 1915, p. 318, sec. 15.]
All concur.

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