MATTER OF PEOPLE

Myron J. Kleban and Julian Bernstein for appellant. Hartwell Cabell and Edward F. Keenan for Superintendent of Insurance, respondent. Joseph M. Hartfield and Wendel P. Barker for National Surety Corporation, respondent. Charles A. Roberts for Reconstruction Finance Corporation, intervening respondent. Harry H. Oshrin, as amicus curiae. Humphrey J. Lynch and Monroe J. Cahn for T. Darrington Semple, as limited administrator with the will annexed de bonis non of Isobel K. Cooper, deceased, amicus curiae.