Parker v. Bond
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tlie Circuit Court of Hale. Tried before the Hon. John Moore. John Alley Parker sued William Bond in this case on a note given as a premium for a policy of life insurance. The defendant interposed several special pleas which are sufficiently set out in the opinion, as are the other questions of pleading.
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Appeal from tlie Circuit Court of Hale. Tried before the Hon. John Moore. John Alley Parker sued William Bond in this case on a note given as a premium for a policy of life insurance. The defendant interposed several special pleas which are sufficiently set out in the opinion, as are the other questions of pleading. The letter of March the 26, 1897, referred to in the opinion, stated that, the defendant' could not keep the policy, that he could not meet the payments, that he was sorry he Avent into it and was going to give it up, and if Edwards Avanted to keep his note he could do so.…
1Opinion of the Court
McCLELLAN, O. J.
— This action is prosecuted by Parker against Bond on a promissory note executed by the latter to the former. Defendant’s first plea sets up that one Edwards, who was acting and holding himself out as the agent and representative of the Washington Life Ins. Co., persuaded and induced defendant to sign the note, that in consideration thereof he was to receive a policy of insurance on his life in the sum of $5,000 from said company, and that he did receive a policy of insurance from said company some weeks after he signed the note; that Edwards in order to induce him to sign…
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