Westmoreland v. Gulf Life Insurance

Where the custom and practice of an insurance company were for a superintendent to deliver customers’ policies to an agent on Saturday to be delivered to applicants or customers on the following Monday, as of which latter date the policies were dated, 'and where the superintendent, whose duty it was to deliver policies to the agent in this case, was absent on the Saturday in question, and the agent obtained customers’ policies from the desk of the superintendent in his absence, and at the same time a policy which was issued to himself, dated the following Monday and providing that it was not…