Harrisburg Trust Co. v. Mutual Life Insurance

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaffer,

W. N. Wickersham was a life insurance agent representing the State Mutual Life Insurance Company and had placed a, policy in that company on the life of James Magee, who was desirous of procuring additional insurance, and on Wickersham’s representation that he could obtain it in other companies, authorized him to do so. Wickersham opened negotiations with Dickey, general agent of the defendant company, and as a result the policy in suit for $50,000 was issued.

To be enabled to share in the premium to be paid, Wickersham signed an application to become an agent…