Hale v. Brooklyn Life Insurance
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered upon an order made October 26,1887, .which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon the report of a referee. This was an action upon a contract to recover “renewal commissions ” claimed to be due thereunder on certain policies issued by defendants. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered upon an order made October 26,1887, .which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon the report of a referee. This was an action upon a contract to recover “renewal commissions ” claimed to be due thereunder on certain policies issued by defendants. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. The referee erred in refusing to find that the contract of February 13, 1880, was, by its terms, a contract for the services of the plaintiff for at least one year. (A. G. Bank v.…
1Opinion of the Court
Follett, Ch. J.
Prior to February 13,1880, the plaintiff was employed, under an oral contract, on a salary by the defendant, to induce persons to take from it policies of insurance on their lives, and while so employed secured a number of policies to be issued and accepted.
It is agreed that prior to this date the plaintiff was not entitled to commissions on the premiums theretofore received, or thereafter to be received on those policies. On the date mentioned the litigants entered into a written contract, by which the plaintiff was to continue in the same service for one year for $3,000,…
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