Hunter Packing Co. v. Trinity-Universal Ins.

WHAM, District Judge.

Plaintiff, an Illinois corporation with its principal office in East St. Louis, Illinois, has filed in this court its complaint seeking damages from defendant, Trinity-Universal Insurance Company, a Texas corporation, as surety on the bond of The Mc-Pheeters Warehouse Company, a Missouri corporation, carrying on the business of a public warehouse in the city of St. Louis, Missouri. The complaint charges damage to plaintiff’s merchandise stored with The McPheeters Warehouse Company in St. Louis, Missouri, resulting from a failure of the warehouse company to exercise…