# Stockberger v. Meridian Mutual Insurance

> Indiana Court of Appeals · October 25, 1979 · 182 Ind. App. 566

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9530930

## Case

- **Full name:** Delbert J. STOCKBERGER, Appellant-Plaintiff, v. MERIDIAN MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Harvey Clarey [Sic], Appellees-Defendants
- **Court:** Indiana Court of Appeals
- **Decided:** October 25, 1979
- **Citations:** 182 Ind. App. 566; 395 N.E.2d 1272
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Garrard
- **Judges:** Staton, Garrard, Hoffman
- **Cited by:** 56 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9530930

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating the agent's lability "could not arise unless the agent had sufficiently definite directions from the principal to enable the agent to consummate the final insurance contract," and noting that there is a corresponding duty on the part of the insured to provide the agent…
- recognizing that contracts to procure insurance may be “oral or written”

## Opinion text

GARRARD, P. J.,
concurs as to Meridian Mutual Insurance Company; and, concurs in result as to Harvey Clary.

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