Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Ditto

Opinion of the Court by

Turner, Commissioner — •

Affirming.

On the 4th of October, 1922, Ed Sago died intestate and in January, 1923, his personal representative qualified, and thereafter brought his action as such against the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, wherein it was alleged, in substance, that on the 20th of September, 1922, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, through its resident agent, Sapp, and its general agent, Whitmer, solicited plaintiff’s intestate to take insurance on his life in the sum of $500.00, and then and there entered into a parol or verbal contract of insurance…