Morris & Co. v. Starkweather & Shepley, Inc.

This suit was brought to recover the sum of $5,880 (and interest) alleged to have been paid by the plaintiffs on April 15, 1910, to the defendant as part of the premiums on certain fire insurance aggregating $700,-000 which, it is alleged, the defendant agreed to procure for the plaintiffs covering certain merchandise and stock in branch houses of the plaintiffs, which insurance the defendant failed to procure.

The contention of the plaintiffs is that the policies to be secured by the defendant were to be renewals of polipies issued the previous year to the plaintiffs upon the property in…