New York Life Ins. v. Taliaferro
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Law and Chancery Court of the city of Forfolk, rendered March 16, 1896, in an action of assumpsit, wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error was the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
W. H. Taliaferro brought an action cf assumpsit against the New York Life Insurance Company to recover compensation for services rendered as agent of that company. A judgment was rendered in his favor, and to that judgment this writ of error was awarded.
Upon the trial of the cause the plaintiff introduced in evidence a written agreement between the parties by which the plaintiff was created the agent of the defendant company, and the terms and conditions of the agency were fixed. To the introduction of that paper the defendant objected, upon the ground that it was under seal and would not…
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