Bent v. Alexander

The Columbia Life Insurance Company was once called the Mound City Life Insurance Company. The name was *182changed after the date of some of the transactions mentioned below. As the change of name is quite unimportant, it will save confusion, perhaps, to note this fact once for all, and call the company throughout this statement by the name which it bore at its dissolution.

The Columbia agreed with Charles H. Peck to pay him a large sum of money if he would successfully promote a certain scheme for transferring all the assets of the St. Louis Mutual to the Columbia, and reinsuring all risks held…