M. A. Kelly Broom Co. v. Missouri Fidelity & Casualty Co.

This is an action on a surety-bond executed by defendant to plaintiff to indemnify plaintiff against any loss occasioned by the misbehavior of one Appelgate as plaintiff’s employee in charge of its office in Missouri -with authority to make sales. The judgment was for plaintiff in the trial court.

Plaintiff is a corporation organized in the State of Kansas for the purpose of manufacturing and selling brooms. It had a branch office in Kansas City Missouri, to which it shipped brooms and from which it sold and delivered them. Appelgate was the manager of this office and he executed his bond “to…