Bartlett v. Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance

This is an action of contract on a bond of the defendant to indemnify the plaintiffs for any pecuniary loss sustained of moneys, securities or other personal property through the fraud or dishonesty of Louis F. Underwood “general bookkeeper” while in their employment. The bond was dated August 10, 1909, and the jury could find on the auditor’s report, the only evidence introduced at the trial, that the plaintiffs paid the initial premium, and succeeding premiums for renewal to July, 1918, and that during the period from November 10, 1914, to September, 1917, Underwood, in one form or another,…