W. J. Perryman & Company, Inc. v. Penn Mutual Fire Insurance Company

JONES, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, W. J. Perryman & Company, Inc., is an Alabama corporation. On July 1,1947, it entered into a contract with the appellee, Penn Mutual Fire Insurance Company, a Pennsylvania corporation, appointing the appellant as general agent of the appellee in the State of Alabama. By an amendment to the contract the appellant also became the appellee’s general agent in the State of Florida. The contract terminated on October 12, 1957. On November 22, 1957, the appellant brought suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, there…