Western Union Life Insurance v. Musgrave

This action is to recover damages for breach of an alleged oral executory contract to loan $16,000, which the appellee, Musgrave, claims was made with him by one Brice, as agent of the appellant, Western Union Life Insurance Company, ,a Washington corporation, and by which he was induced to buy a life insurance policy in the appellant company. The policy was issued and paid for with cash and promissory notes, but the loan was not consummated. In the contract of insurance, including the application and the policy, no reference is made to the loan. The agent, Brice, had no authority, real or…