The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-11
HOW HARDWICK TREATED ONE
OF HIS CLIENTS.

HOW HARDWICK TREATED ONE
OF HIS CLIENTS.
1.-THE following letter was written
by prominent business man of Dub
lin, Ca, to friend in Harrison, Ca.
Dear Sir:-Your second letter ask
ing me about the insurance policy re-
ceived. I will give you the facts in
the case, and you may use your pleas
ure in mentioning it. In the year
1870 my father took out life in
surance policy in the DeSoto Mutual
Life Insurance Company, of St. Louis,
Mo. This policy was for $4,000, on
the ten payment plan. Annual pre-
MUM, $310.95. My father died in
1893, and I proceeded to locate the
insurance company. So I wrote to
the above named company at St.
Louis, Mo-, and the postmaster there
returned my letter and wrote me that
no such company could be found
there. I then began to try and find
out what had become of the company.
On April the 18th, 1899, I was in
Sandersville, Ca, and had the insur-
ance policy with me. 1 had a talk
with Mr.. Ike Hermann about the mat
ter and asked him if he knew any,
thing about the insurance company.
He told me yes, that he took out a
policy with the same company about
the time my father did. And that
company had sold out to Washing
ton, D. c., company, and the last
named company was responsible and
would pay the money Stated that
the new company had arranged his
policy, and gave him paid up policy.
But he had forgotten the name of the
new company; said he had his policy
in his safe at home, and if he was
there could give me the name of the
new company. l then told him 1
would leave the policy with T. w.
Hardwick, for him to collect for me.
I saw Hardwick, showed him the
policy, and stated to him what Mr..
Hermann had told me, and told him
to call on Mr.. Hermann and get the
information as to the name of the
new company. Hardwick charged me
rs per cent for collection, and gave
me receipt for the policy, which I
now hold. I came from Sandersville
to this point and notified Hardwick
OF my pOstOflce, as he had asked me
to do. A year passed and, as I had
heard nothing from him, l wrote and
asked him what he ever did about
ny policy? He did not reply to my
letter until had written him several
times, and in my last letter told him
to send me the policy. He wrote me
on the 18th of June, 1901, that since
1 left the policy with him he had
moved from one Office to another, and
in the move, of books, papers, etc.,
in some way that particular paper
was misplaced. Said he was having
a search made for it, and would send
it to me as soon as he could find it.
waited on him for some time to find
it and return it to me, and as I heard
nothing more from him, tried to get
lawyer to either get the policy from
him or make him pay the money.
But failed to get a lawyer who was
willing to push him, so I lost it all.
These are the facts in the case, and 1
have before me "now" the receipt
and letter from Hardwick to me- I
certainly feel that Hardwick was too
careless with paper of so much
value, to say the least of it. And
think that he ought to have been
made to pay the money or produce
the policy. Yours respectfully,
Dublin, Ga.
P. S.-Write me what you think of