Legal Opinion
Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Company, a Corporation v. Julius Seidel Lumber Co., a Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 1, 1960No. 16352_1PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal by the defendant (appellant), hereafter referred to as “surety”, from a judgment for the plaintiff (appellee) in the principal sum of $11,600 in a diversity action upon a contract or contracts of suretyship or fidelity insurance by which the surety agreed to pay to the plaintiff such loss as it might sustain by acts of dishonesty of a iashier and bookkeeper employed by it.
The contract in suit is a Missouri contract, and the applicable substantive law is that of Missouri. The facts are stipulated. The case was tried to the court. The judgment represents…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Stipcich v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1928
- Mutual Life Insurance v. Hurni Packing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1923
- Bergholm v. Peoria Life Ins. Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Imperial Fire Insurance v. Coos CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1894
- Wendorff v. Missouri State Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Missouri · 1927
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3Cited by18 opinions
- State Bank of Poplar Bluff v. Maryland Casualty CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1961
- Peacock & Peacock, Inc. v. Stuyvesant Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1964
- Home Indemnity Company v. Lee Alan Miller and Lois Magnuson MillerCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1968
- Jimmy N. Looney, Clinton M. Hickman, Betty Cureton, Margaret Coon, Martha Cooper and R. T. Cooper v. Allstate Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1968
- David Kern, a Minor, by Arthur Kern, His Next Friend v. Liberty Mutual Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1968
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