Wright v. Wight & Wight

Wight '& Wight, insurance agents, brought this suit against Rufus Wright and Wright Hotel Company upon open account to recover $239.15, with interest, for premiums due upon certain fire insurance policies alleged to have been “sold and delivered” by plaintiffs to the defendants between June 1 and December 1, 1917, which premiums, it was alleged, the defendants promised to pay plaintiffs.

In bar of the action the defendants in substance set up that in the early part of 1917 Rufus Wright owned a tract of land in Sweetwater, Tex., upon which he contemplated building a hotel the erection of which…