Bander v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

The plaintiff was employed as an insurance agent at the Somerville office of the defendant and was a policyholder in the defendant. On February 9, 1939, in response to a subpoena, he appeared and testified under oath before a committee of the Congress of the United States at Washington, D. C. In reply to questions there put to him he made, in substance, these statements: In elections of directors held by the defendant it has been a general practice in the Somerville office for agents to sign ballots for policyholders without their consent. The witness “would say” he had engaged in that…