White v. Post
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Leflore county. Hon. Sidney M. Smith, Judge. Post and another, doing business as general agents of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, under the copartnership name of Post & Bowles, the appellees, were plaintiffs in the court below; White, the appellant, was defendant there. The suit was in assumpsit on a promissory note. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor, defendant appealed to the supreme court.
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From the circuit court of Leflore county. Hon. Sidney M. Smith, Judge. Post and another, doing business as general agents of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, under the copartnership name of Post & Bowles, the appellees, were plaintiffs in the court below; White, the appellant, was defendant there. The suit was in assumpsit on a promissory note. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor, defendant appealed to the supreme court. The case was tried before the court, on an agreed statement of facts, substantially set forth in the opinion of the court, a jury being waived. Laws 1898, ch. 5, in force…
1Opinion of the CourtCalhoon, J.
Bray was an agent of the Mutual Life Insurance Company and had not paid his privilege tax as an agent. As such agent he solicited insurance from White, the appellant here, and.got his application for a policy of insurance on his life; and he sent the application to Post & Bowles, the appellees, who were the general agents of that insurance company, and the insurance company issued a policy on the life of White and sent it to this agent Bray, who delivered it to White. Thereupon, in payment of the first premium on the policy, White executed and delivered to Bray his promissory note, which is…
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