Union Casualty & Surety Co. v. Gray

GRAY, Circuit Judge.

The record brought before us by this writ of error, discloses a suit instituted in the court below by Delbert B. Gray, plaintiff below, defendant in error here, against the Union Casualty & Surety Company, defendant below, plaintiff in error here. The cause of action, as set out in the statement of claim, was the alleged breach of a contract contained in a certain agreement in writing, executed on the 2d day of September, 1893, between David Black, general agent for the Middle states of the Union Casualty & Surety Company, of St. Louis, Mo., and Edward P. Carpenter,…