Svalina v. Big Horn National Life Insurance Co.

Plaintiff filed complaint alleging that he, being elderly, foreign-born, and poorly educated, had upon representations of the defendant’s salesmen in 1964 and 1965 writ ten two checks totaling $5,160.40 for capital stock in the company, having been assured that in addition life insurance would he carried on anyone plaintiff might designate; that defendant had failed to issue stock as promised and instead issued ten insurance policies on plaintiff’s children. Accordingly, he asked judgment that the transaction be set aside and the amount of his checks returned because of the overreaching of…