Firpo v. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance

Plaintiff sued for $943.76 on a common count for money had and received. The cause was tried before the court sitting with a jury and a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum prayed was returned. From the judgment following the verdict the defendant has appealed on a typewritten record under section 953a of the Code of Civil Procedure.

Plaintiff based his action upon the claim that his assignors had paid the sum in suit to the defendant as premiums upon a policy of life insurance in the principal sum of $15,000; that his assignors were induced to make the payments through the misrepresentations…