Southwestern Surety Ins. v. Hico Oil Mill
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Tarrant County; J. W. Swayne, Judge. Action by C. H. Bencini, doing business under the trade name1 of the Hico Oil Company, against the Southwestern Surety Insurance Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDuniclin, J.
From a judgment in favor of C. H. Bencini, doing business under the trade-name of the Hico Oil Company, against the Southwestern Surety Insurance Company upon its bond in which it agreed to re imburse plaintiff for any pecuniary loss lie might sustain through the fraud or dishonesty of Horace M. Scales, his employé and business manager, the defendant has ap-peáled.
■Scales made a written application to the defendant for the bond upon a printed form containing many questions propounded to him with blanks to be filled in with his answers thereto, and in which his answers were written. Upon…
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- Johnson v. American National Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Georgia · 1910
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