Case Name: Ætna Insurance Company v. Spillers
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1926-09-23
Citations: 35 Ga. App. 766
Docket Number: 16990
Parties: Ætna Insurance Company v. Spillers.
Judges: Jenkins, P. J., and Bell, J., concur.
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 35
Pages: 766–766

Head Matter:
16990.
Ætna Insurance Company v. Spillers.
Decided September 23, 1926.
Homer Beeland, for plaintiff. John B. Guerry, for defendant. .

Opinion:
Stephens, J.
Where an insurance company issued and delivered a policy of insurance and accepted in payment of the premium a promissory note of the insured showing that its consideration was the identical policy, the insurance company will be held to have waived the provision of the policy that it should be valid only when signed by the local agent, and a plea of failure of consideration was no defense to a suit upon the note. See, in this connection, Rogers v. American National Ins. Co., 145 Ga. 570 (89 S. E. 700) ; Massachusetts Benefit Life Asso. v. Robinson, 104 Ga. 256 (4) (30 S. E. 918, 42 L. R. A. 261) ; Darsey v. Insurance Co. of North America, 32 Ga. App. 458 (123 S. E. 622). The defendant having recovered a verdict, the court erred in overruling plaintiff's motion for a new trial.
Judgment reversed.
Jenkins, P. J., and Bell, J., concur.