Fennell v. Zimmerman
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Tazewell county rendered September 11, 1897, in an action of debt wherein the plaintiff in error was the plaintiff, and the defendants in error were the defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtRiely, J.
*198This action was brought upon a note for $250 given to the plaintiff, as agent for the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, in part payment of the first year’s premium on a policy of life insurance issued to the defendant by the said company. The whole premium was $517, and another note for $267 was given in payment of the balance of the premium,, which the defendant had paid.
The defendant set up the defence that the plaintiff agreed and bound himself to furnish to the defendant a policy of insurance on his life in the said company for $10,000 on the endowment plan, maturing in twenty…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Plympton v. DunnMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1889
- Leigh v. BrownSupreme Court of Georgia · 1896
3Cited by3 opinions
- Bostwick v. Mutual Life Insurance Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1903
- Monast v. Manhattan Life Insurance Co.Supreme Court of Rhode Island · 1911
- Ribble v. RobertsCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1915