United States v. Edwin J. Schlenvogt, Capitol Indemnity Insurance Company, Surety

DUFFY, Circuit Judge.

This appeal challenges a judgment entered in the District Court in the sum of $2,000 against the defendant, Capitol Indemnity Insurance Company (Capitol).

It appears that Capitol was surety on an appearance bond filed in behalf of one Edwin J. Schlenvogt, as principal. After a plea of guilty to a criminal charge, Schlenvogt was scheduled to appear on December 17, 1956 before Honorable Julius J. Hoffman in the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. Schlenvogt did not appear.

Judge Hoffman announced from the bench, “There will be an order…