Dwight R. Woodford Co. v. Johnson

This is an action of contract upon an account annexed for insurance premiums, alleged by the plaintiff to have been paid on behalf of the defendant. The answer is a general denial, payment, and the further answer that the defendant “never entered into a contract with the plaintiff for any insurance; that if he entered into any contract for insurance, as alleged, it was with one Richard Buntin for a definite period of time which elapsed prior to the dates charged in the declaration.” At the close of all the evidence the defendant moved in writing that a verdict be directed in his favor; the…