101 F. 422 | D. Colo. | 1899
(orally). I do not think a mining corporation can be regarded as a trading corporation, or that it is in mercantile pursuits. The mention of printing and publishing companies seems to limit the class of corporations which congress had in mind. They are manufacturing companies, in a sense, and congress thought it necessary to- enumerate them. Certainly a mining company, which is organized for operating a mine and getting precious metals from it, cannot be said to be engaged in any species of trading. I think Judge Wellborn, in calling a sanitarium a trading corporation, was wrong. In re San Gabriel Sanatorium Co. (D. C.) 95 Fed. 271. I do not see how that can be said. Judge Phillips has a better idea of the meaning of the law when he holds that an insurance company is not of that class. In re Cameron Town Mut. Fire, Lightning & Windstorm Ins. Co. (D. C.) 96 Fed. 756. lío one would think, in an ordinary discussion, of calling an insurance com