Hartline v. Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Ass'n

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

The same parties were before us touching the same transaction of health and accident insurance in Hartline v. Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Association, 5 Cir., 84 F.2d 21, 23. It was there held that no contract of insurance was effected by action at the home office, and that the allegations of an oral contract with the agent who solicited the insurance were insufficient because of confusion in them on the point of his authority. After holding that the forms furnished the agent by the association did not show authority to contract and that the agent’s assertion of…