Manzer v. Pentico

Plaintiff brought this action for damages against the defendant insurance agent for the defendant’s alleged failure to obtain insurance to cover plaintiff’s custom farming operations. After the taking of depositions and filing of interrogatories the District Court sustained defendant’s motion for summary judgment and dis missed plaintiffs petition.

Plaintiffs petition alleged that the defendant had breached an oral contract to obtain insurance to cover the plaintiffs custom farming operations, and also alleged that defendant had agreed to obtain such insurance but had negligently failed to do…