Phoenix Insurance Company v. Wood

The insurance company sued Mrs. Wood on a promissory note. In her answer the defendant admitted the execution of the note and that the plaintiff was its legal holder, thereby admitting a prima facie case in the plaintiff. On the trial, the defendant testified over the objections of the plaintiff, that, when she made the contract with the “desk company” to buy certain chairs, she had a conversation with W. A. Pruitt, an agent of the company, about insurance on the chairs, and that Pruitt told her that $302 of the amount of the note signed by her for the purchase-price of the chairs was for…