Johnson v. National Life Insurance

This case was tried before the court without a jury upon a stipulation that findings of fact and conclusions of law be waived, and that a verdict be directed with the same force and effect as though a jury were present.

The action is one brought by the plaintiff, an assignee of an *119insurance agent, to recover from the defendant damages for breach of contract of employment.

The plaintiff’s assignor claims that in the year 1931 the defendant, through Wells, Meissel & Peyser, Inc., the general agents of the defendant, employed the plaintiff’s assignor to act as an agent for the defendant in…