Theno v. National Assurance Corp.

An action at law was brought by an agent to recover commissions he claimed due from defendant company for selling policies under two separate oral contracts of agency. *619The claim for commissions to be collected after plaintiff left the employ of the company is flatly denied by defendant, which sets up in its answer a written settlement agreement, which definitely settles all past or future claims between the parties. At the close of all the evidence a verdict was directed for defendant.

Plaintiff sought to introduce evidence of mistake, accident, and fraud in such written settlement, and…