St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. v. Birrell

WOLVERTON, District Judge.

Libelant seeks to recover from respondent an alleged balance for premiums on marine policies of insurance. The case made by the libel is that the parties entered into a contract, whereby, for a certain commission on all premiums, respondent agreed to negotiate insurance in the libelant company upon vessels plying the high seas and the waterways of this state, and personally bound himself to be responsible to libelant for all premiums upon all marine insurance written by it at his instance and request, or for parties introduced by respondent to libelant; that an…