Fewel & Dawes, Inc. v. Pratt

17 Cal.2d 85 (1941)

FEWEL & DAWES, INC. (a Corporation), Respondent,

v.

FRANKLIN L. PRATT, Appellant.

L. A. No. 16070.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

January 27, 1941.

Hugh Ward Lutz for Appellant.

Hulen C. Callaway and Joe Crail, Jr., for Respondent.

TRAYNOR, J.

The appellant, Franklin L. Pratt, a licensed life insurance broker, had written several policies of life insurance for John G. Bullock of Los Angeles. In 1928 Bullock decided to take out additional life insurance amounting to $150,000 under an arrangement that would enable his son-in- law, Richard W. Fewel, to receive half of the…