Johnston v. American Insurance Co.

This is an appeal from a decree for $522.48 rendered in the chancery court of Randolph County against appellants on a simple account comprising debits alone, some fifty-two in number, for the commissions on unearned premiums on fire insurance policies written by appellant Ben Johnston for appellee on farm property and which policies were cancelled by appellee when it decided to withdraw its farm department from the State of Arkansas on May 15, 1931.

The complaint filed by appellee alleged, in substance, that appellant Ben Johnston entered into a contract with it in 1921 to write fire insurance…