Court Opinion

ID: 9844876
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 03:11:03.852533+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:15:46.405706
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
Plaintiff in error (defendant below) urges in his motion for rehearing that since the petition affirmatively alleges that plaintiffs were the agents of the Reserve Insurance Company, for whom they issued the policy in question, plaintiffs were not entitled to maintain an action to recover the amount of premium alleged to be due under the policy. It is true that generally an agent can not maintain an action on a contract which he has made on behalf of his principal. Code § 4-404. There is, however, an exception to this rule when the agency is coupled with an interest in the agent, such as commissions. Field v. Price, 50 Ga. 136, 139 (1); Code § 4-404(5). It was alleged in paragraph 3a of plaintiffs’ second amendment that “plaintiffs earn a *835commission on premiums earned on policies issued by them and the plaintiffs are liable to that company [Reserve Insurance Company] for the premiums on policies issued by them, being charged by that company with the duty of collecting the premiums on policies so issued.”
Another contention urged upon the motion for rehearing is that the premium was to be determined from the gross receipts of particular enumerated vehicles described in the policy. In his deposition the defendant admitted that he had requested and obtained from plaintiffs numerous endorsements to cover the vehicles of other people who were hauling for him on a brokerage basis, and then asserted “it would have been cheaper for me had I gone ahead and gotten just a policy on the trucks that I actually owned. . .”
There is no merit in either contention.

Motion denied.