United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Jasper

CONN.EB, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted in the District Court by defendant in error W. S. Jasper, against Tom Haynie and plaintiff in error, the United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company, surety on the official bond of said Haynie as a policeman of the city of Fort Worth in the sum of five hundred dollars, to recover twenty-five hundred dollars actual and twenty-five hundred dollars exemplary damages for an alleged malicious and unlawful assault and battery by Tom Haynie upon W. S. Jasper on the 7th day of February, Í908. On May 33, 1908, judgment by default was rendered against said…