Murphy v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

Devaney, Chief Justice.

Action to recover sum alleged to be due as balance of commissions for finding purchasers for certain real estate owned by defendant.

In the latter part of September, 1929, plaintiff, H. J. Murphy, banker in Wilmont, Minnesota, received from Annis & Rohling Company, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, farm loan bankers, a circular letter listing for sale two farms located near Wilmont. Both of these farms were owned by the defendant, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company. About that time plaintiff talked with Rohling, agent of the defendant, over the telephone and was promised…