Court Opinion

ID: 5262130
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-06 18:46:17.181375+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:28:05.854377
License: Public Domain

John M. Kellogg, P. J.:
The action was brought to recover premiums on policies of life insurance which the plaintiff, the district manager of the company, had paid to the company, the policies having *739been delivered upon the payment of $150 cash, the remainder to be paid in three quarterly payments thereafter.
The defendant admitted the execution of the policies and the agreement to pay the premiums, but claimed that in September, about a month after the policies were delivered, he surrendered them to the soliciting agent who agreed to return them to the company and cancel them. This evidence was received over the objection of the plaintiff that no authority in the soliciting agent was shown to make such agreement, and exception was duly taken.
The plaintiff offered in evidence an undated letter, which seems to have been written by defendant in January after the policies were issued, returning one of the policies to the company and asking to have it canceled upon the ground that he was not able to make the payments, but saying that he would continue the other policy. This letter was excluded and the plaintiff excepted. It was material as showing that after the defendant claimed he had surrendered the policies to the agent, he returned one of them to the company and asked to be relieved from it, stating that he would continue the other. „ These rulings call for a reversal of the judgment.
The judgment should, therefore, be reversed and a new trial granted, with costs to the appellant to abide the event.
All concur'.
Judgment reversed and new trial granted, with costs to appellant to abide event.