Richards v. Phoenix Mut. Life Ins. Co.

JOHNSEN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant quit his job in government service at Kansas City, Missouri, to become a life insurance salesman there for Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company. He remained with the Company for eight months and then left. After trying his hand with another company for two months more, he gave up the insurance game and returned to government service.

Two and a half years later, he brought suit against Phoenix Mutual, for $25,000 actual damages and $75,000 punitive damages, alleging that he had been the victim of fraud, in that he had been induced to leave the government…