Manhattan Life Insurance v. Boykin

Samuel J. Boykin, an attorney at law, brought suit in the city court of Carrollton against Manhattan Life Insurance Company and Frank E. Mathews (the last named being a general agent of the insurance company), to recover $1200.16, and accrued *147interest, under an alleged agreement, by virtue of which Boykin was to receive, for certain services to be rendered, fifty per centum of the first year’s premium on such life-insurance • business as the agent might be able to secure as the result of such services. According to the allegations of the petition, the service to be rendered was merely to…