Martin v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.

The surety bond, by virtue of which the plaintiffs seek to hold Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company liable in count 1 of the petition, under the theory that the bond is a statutory one, is the identical bond which was under discussion by this court in Hopkins v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co., 87 Ga. App. 513 (74 S. E. 2d 494). In that case this court held: “A real estate broker’s license bond, given pursuant tq the provisions of Code § 84-1409, as amended by the acts of 1949 (Ga. L. 1949, pp. 943, 945) and of 1950 (Ga. L. 1950, pp. 278/279), is purely a statutory bond, conditioned that…