Occidental Life Ins. Co. Of California v. Marmaduke Corbyn Agency

HUXMAN, Circuit Judge.

This was an action by Occidental Life Insurance Company, hereinafter called the company, against Marmaduke Corbyn Agency and its members, hereinafter called Corbyn, for a declaration of rights under a settlement contract terminating a preexisting insurance agency contract between the parties. The trial court decided the issues against the company, and this appeal followed.

While a number of issues were originally involved, the sole question finally submitted to and decided by the trial court was Corbyn's right to commissions upon converted term policies where the term…