Rayden Engineering Corp. v. Church

These are the plaintiff’s exceptions to the action of the trial judge in directing verdicts for the defendants on each of the counts of the declaration. The action was in tort and contract against the members of a firm of insurance brokers in Boston, co-partners (hereinafter called the firm), and their employee, one Delamater. The contract counts, 1, 2, and 3 against the firm, and counts 4 and 5 against Delamater, alleged a failure to perform an undertaking to effect, for the plaintiff’s benefit, a policy of insurance against accidental death of an employee, one Machinist. Counts 2, 3, and 5…