Faughner v. Manufacturers' Mutual Fire Insurance

Plaintiffs sued to recover a loss on an alleged contract of insurance. No policy was issued, and the question is whether the proofs established the contract. The court below left the question to the jury, who found for the plaintiffs.

Plaintiffs applied to one Woodard to effect an insurance upon their property. Woodard was a manufacturer, and did some insurance business. He was not the agent for the defendant. He was an insurance broker. He testified that he had no other arrangement with the defendant than to send on applications for parties desiring to be insured. ' He took and forwarded…