Council v. Bankers Commercial Life Ins. Co.

KEITH, Justice.

Defendants appeal from an adverse judgment rendered in a trial to a jury of a case involving alleged tortious interference with contractual relationships between the plaintiff, Bankers Commercial Life Insurance Company, and one of its former employees, E. Y. Scott.

Part I

Scott, a former president of Bankers, embezzled in excess of $450,000 from Bankers and, according to our record, confessed to such fact and agreed to make restitution insofar as he was able. Scott, either individually or through a corporation which he controlled, Nationwide Interiors, Inc., owned an equity in a…