(after stating the facts). Oaks & Abernathy were.agents of the defendant insurance company to make contracts of insurance. By a letter of instructions, of which the plaintiffs had no actual knowledge, their general agency to insure property was limited. The limitation will not relieve the defendant, therefore, from liability for the act of its agents, though in violation of it, unless it can show that the plaintiffs are to be-charged with constructive notice of the limitation, by reason of the other circumstances disclosed. The argument on behalf of the insurance company is that Crockett was the agent of the plaintiffs in obtaining the insurance, and that, as Crockett was advised by
Teutonia Ins. Co. v. Ewing
90 F. 217 | 6th Cir. | 1898
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