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Show INSURANCE' COMPANY WINS Judge Howell has prepared a memorandum mem-orandum of his decision In the case of the Bankers' Rcscnc Life company ngalnst Fdwnrd II. De l,amator. the decision being in favor of the plaintiff com pony. The ;duintirf brought the acif.-.n to recover on three promissory notes Riven by the defendant in payment of an annual premium on a policy of Insurance, In-surance, which notes the defendant I refused to pay on the grounds that be was under age when he signed the notes and that there was no consideration consider-ation stated In the instruments, alo making a counter-claim for the sum of rTl.ln paid plaintiff in premiums) The court holds that because the defendant held the policies Issued to him intil the time of the beginning of the suit, when they were delivered to his attorney, who In turn lost them, waived his right of release from contract con-tract because of his youth, and It Is also held that due consideration was shown on the face of at least one of the notes. oo |