Linn v. Employers Reinsurance Corp.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Cohen,

Plaintiff insurance brokers brought this action in law to require the defendant insurance company to account and pay to them commissions on insurance premiums received since 1953 from a New Jersey company. At the close of plaintiffs’ evidence, the trial judge entered a nonsuit which the court en hanc refused to remove, and this appeal followed.

From the undisputed evidence it appears that in 1926 the plaintiffs were engaged in the insurance brokerage business in Philadelphia. In that year plaintiffs offered to place with the defendant contracts for the reinsurance…