Lowther v. Fireside Mutual Life Insurance

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The plaintiff, Alexander C. Lowther, alleging that under a contract effective January 1, 1948, the defendant, Fireside Mutual Life Insurance Company, had engaged1 him as its General Agent and Sales Manager to promote sales of insurance policies in the casualty and burial departments of the company, that as such he was to supervise and direct all sales activities in the various branch offices where funeral directors held district agency contracts, and in lieu of a salary he was to receive a commission of 3% of the gross premiums received by the company on business…