Western Indemnity Co. v. Southern Surety Co.

Statement of the Case.

KITTRELL, J.

The purpose of the action out of which this appeal arose was in effect to obtain the construction of a contract.

On the 18th day of May, 1912, in the city of St. Louis, Arthur G. Moseley, as attorney for the Southern Surety Company, addressed a proposition in writing to Thos. B. Love, as attorney of the Federál Union Surety Company, which proposition was by said Love, on behalf of his client, accepted in the terms in which it was made. The contract was to begin on June 15, 1912, and expire on June 16, 1913, and when it expired, and it was sought to adjust the…