Standard Life Insurance Co. v. Carey

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Frazer,

This action is based on a contract wherein plaintiff employed defendant as its agent to solicit insurance, and was brought to recover various items claimed to be due from defendant on an open account between them, and the further sum of $25,000 damages for breach of contract by defendant. The latter’s affidavit of defense denied any amount due plaintiff and set up a counterclaim for damages in the sum of $200,000 for alleged breach of contract by plaintiff in wrongly dismissing defendant.

The ease was, by agreement, submitted to a referee who, after hearing the…