Austin v. New Brunswick Fire Insurance

This appeal is from a judgment of the district court of Lewis and Clark county in favor of the plaintiff after its order denying a new trial. The trial was had before the court sitting without a jury. The facts out of which this controversy arose are these:

Some time during the month of May, 1929, John G. Brown met Russell H. Hart, one of the members of the firm of Hart & Hart, and discussed with him the purchase by Brown of automobile insurance from the Hart firm. It is undisputed that at the time and for a considerable period afterwards the firm of Hart & Hart was the agent of the two…