Miller v. Liberty Insurance Company

On appeal by the plaintiff to the entry of judgment for the defendant notwithstanding a jury verdict for the plaintiff.

The case arises out of the following facts:

The plaintiff and the defendant, a corporate insurance agent and broker, had business relations prior to March of 1963 in which the defendant had placed collision insurance for the plaintiff on a 1962 car for the period expiring March 8, 1963. In February of 1963 plaintiff advised Mr. Franklin P. Liberty, President and major stockholder of the defendant company, that he had a new car upon order, that he did not wish the existing…