Patterson v. Cotton States Mutual Insurance

Quillian, Justice.

We need not consider the second question posed since the first is determinative of the issues in this case.

The underwriter for Cotton States was permitted to testify that the company’s position was that “if we had received a notice from the agent that the insured would not sign the endorsement or pay the additional premium a direct notice of cancellation would have been sent out the same day.” This was objected to on the ground that “it called for a hypothetical conclusion and it has no bearing on the issues here whatsoever.”

Testimony that if an insurance company had known…