This result is fortified by the established rule of law in Arkansas that if one of two innocent parties must suffer, the one who put it in the power of a third person to perpetrate the fraud should suffer the loss. Fireman's Fund Ins. Co. v. Leftwich, 1936, 192 Ark. 159, 90 S.W.2d 497; Williams v. Hulse, 1931, 184 Ark. 855, 43 S.W.2d 723; Merchants' Nat. Bank v. Home Bldg. Savings Ass'n, 1929, 180 Ark. 464, 22 S.W.2d 15. Here if either Aetna or the intervenor-customers, both innocent parties, must suffer, certainly Aetna, which allowed Eisenberg to solicit for it as its agent, gave him the power to perpetrate the fraud and had it in its power to prevent the fraud by making the provided-for audits, should suffer the loss rather than the intervenor-customers.
It is an established rule of law adhered to by this court in a long line of opinions that, if one of two innocent parties must suffer, the one who put it in the power of a third person to perpetrate the act should suffer the loss. Williams v. Hulse, 184 Ark. 855, 43 S.W.2d 723; Merchants' Nat. Bank v. Home Bldg. Loan Assn., 180 Ark. 464, 22 S.W.2d 15. Even so here appellants admitted agents effected appellants' liability and executed the evidences thereof, and they must suffer the consequences instead of casting it upon the insured.