Barber v. Connecticut Mutual Life Ins.

The proofs establish, in substance, the theory of the bill that the complainant purchased the good-will of Marvin and of Carr in their business as local agents for the defendant, upon *313the faith of the assurances of Peck & Hillman, the general agents of the defendant in this state. These representations wore to the effect that it had been their uniform practice, while having charge of the local agencies within their territory, to permit their subagents, when desiring to relinquish their agencies, to sell the good-will of the agency business to some acceptable successor, and that the right of…