87 Ga. 738 | Ga. | 1891
These parties, in June, 1888, entered into a written contract whereby the defendant appointed the plaintiff general agent of the association, with the title of Manager of the Georgia Department, for the purpose of procuring aiid effecting applications for membership satisfactory to the association, and for collecting the admissiou fees on applications, and for securing agents, to be appointed by the association, for the purpose of procuring applications. One of the stipulations was as follows:
“ Third. The district in which said Manager shall havé the right to work and to appoint General Agents for the purpose of procuring applications ás aforesaid shall embrace the State of Georgia and such healthy portions of Mississippi and Florida as may be acceptable to the Association. Said right shall continue so long as the new business secured by said Manager and his agents from said district shall in each and every month be not less than Fifty Thousand Dollars commencing from August 1st, 1888. This contract is made subject to the condition that the Association is legally authorized to transact business in said district assigned, but should said Association not now have such authority, or should said authority be at any time hereafter revoked, then this contract shall be null and void as to so much of said district as it may be prohibited from transacting business in, except upon business already clone therein by said Manager, or agents appointed by him, if any.”
Another stipulation was in these words : “Subject to all the provisions, herein contained, this coutract shall continue in force for the term of teu years.” The plaintiff served seven months, and in that time the amount of business procured by him and his agents was $194,000. The company discontinued his services and