Wolfe v. International Reinsurance Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
This action is in contract to recover for services rendered to the defendant in procuring for it a “reinsurance treaty” between itself and the United States Casualty Company, by which the defendant received certain unearned premiums and assumed the eorre■-sponding risks underwritten by that company. Though the existence of any agreement to pay for these services was in issue at the trial, we are to take it after verdict that the defendant, through its president Hansen, orally promised Wolfe, one of the partners in the plaintiff firm, that the firm should have two and a…
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