Westerfield v. Prudential Ins. Co. of America

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

The appellant and plaintiff below, Melvin G-. Westerfield, in the year 1930 began serving the appellee and defendant below Prudential Insurance Company of America as a solicitor of life insurance for it within a prescribed district in Louisville, Ky., and also making-weekly collections of premiums on nonlapsed policies issued by defendant to persons within his district. The assistant superintendent having charge of that district, received the weekly reports of plaintiff, and of others, similarly employed under him, and which reports contained newly…