Wilkins v. State Insurance
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant from an order of the district court for Eice county, Buckham, J., presiding, refusing anew trial after a verdict of $322.75 for plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
The defendant, an Iowa corporation, but doing business in this state, had an agent at Faribault, whose general duties *178were to solicit insurance, fill up tbe blanks in printed policies already signed by the general officers of the company, and left in his possession, countersign and deliver the same, and collect and remit the premiums. It is undisputed in the evidence that this agent, having solicited the plaintiff for insurance on his stock, and the plaintiff being unable then to pay the premium, assumed to waive immediate payment, and to give plaintiff a temporary credit for the premium, and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Lamberton v. Connecticut Fire InsuranceSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1888
3Cited by5 opinions
- Rein v. New York Life Insurance Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1941
- Green v. Minnesota Farmers Mutual InsuranceSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1933
- Bienhoff v. North American Accident InsuranceSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1922
- Heikes v. New York Life Ins.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1948
- Meadows v. Peoples Life InsuranceWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1937