NAT. IND. CO., INC. v. Smith-Gandy, Inc.

National Indemnity Company, Inc., is a Nebraska corporation. Through its general agent, the Northwest General Agency, Inc., it carries on a general insurance business in Seattle, and in the course of its business it issues public liability policies.

Smith-Gandy, Inc., is engaged in the automobile sales business in Seattle. LaBow, Haynes Company, Inc., is engaged in the insurance sales and brokerage business in Seattle.

June 7, 1955, at 3:15 o’clock p. m., Pacific Standard Time, Andrew D. Hawley, representing LaBow, Haynes Company as Smith-Gandy’s broker, telephoned Richard F. Nowak,…