WESTERN MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY v. WOOD

No. 48727.

70 N.W.2d 563 (1955)

WESTERN MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, v. Cecil WOOD, Marie Sebastian and Donald Sebastian, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

June 7, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B. C. Sullivan, Rockford, and Bannister, Carpenter, Ahlers & Cooney, Des Moines, for appellant.

Westfall, Laird & Burington, Mason City, for appellees.


MULRONEY, Justice.

The pertinent facts in this case are not in dispute. One Cecil Wood secured a standard automobile liability policy of insurance in the Western Mutual Insurance Company of Des Moines, covering his Ford automobile. The policy was secured from H. C. Batty of Rockford, Iowa, who had acted for the company as an agent for about 25 years with authority to solicit applications for insurance. Mr. Batty's agency arrangement with Western was the familiar one...

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