Beers v. Penn Mutual Life Insurance

Plaintiff sued defendant to recover commissions claimed to have been earned by him on premiums due and to grow due upon the conversion of term life insurance policies in defendant to ordinary life policies by Guy P. Wilson of Kalamazoo, the insured. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals.

Guy P. Wilson of Kalamazoo had term life insurance in the aggregate of $35,000 with the defendant company. Plaintiff had been its general agent in Grand Rapids. He had been superseded there as general agent by Mr. Buckner, had moved out of defendant’s office, and was maintaining offices of his own…