Elks v. . Insurance Co

This is an action to recover damages for breach of an alleged contract to lend the plaintiff $1,000.

The plaintiff offered evidence tending to prove that he held a life policy in the defendant company, and that in 1910 he applied to the defendant to lend him $1,000; that he told J. F. Stokes, an agent of the defendant, who had authority to solicit insurance and to collect premiums, but no authority to make loans or take applications therefor, that he wanted some money, and that Stokes said he could get some; that most of the correspondence in reference to the loans was between the said Stokes…