Hartford Fire Insurance Company v. Shapiro

LIVINGSTON, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Walker County, Alabama, awarding the appellee, Phil Shapiro, Jr., plaintiff in the court below, $1,350 damages for the breach of an oral contract to insure, as claimed in Count 2 and 3, or of insurance, as claimed in Count 4 of the complaint.

A few days prior to December 18, 1954, plaintiff’s father, Phil Shapiro, Sr., asked W. Douglas Leake, Jr., agent of appellant, defendant in the court below, to contact his son, appellee, and sell appellee some insurance covering a new automobile which appellee had just…