Bristol v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc. of the United States
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from special term, New York county. Action by John I. D. Bristol against the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, to recover money due by contract, and for an accounting. Judgment dismissing complaint, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMacomber, J.
The complaint is filed to obtain an accounting from the defendant, and a recovery of a suitable sum of money to compensate the plaintiff for communicating to the defendant, through its president, a new system of soliciting life insurance, which, after a confidential disclosure thereof to the president of the defendant, was, as is alleged in the complaint, adopted by the defendant. The details of the new scheme or system of transacting the business of soliciting life insurance is said by the complaint to be contained in Exhibit A, which is annexed thereto, and consequently, for a thorough…
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