First National Bank v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.

*335The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

The Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company executed to the First National Bank of Lewis, Kan., a bond effective January 1, 1919, for $10,000, indemnifying it against loss by embezzlement of its cashier, and a like bond for $5,000 in the case of its assistant cashier. The cashier was guilty of embezzlements from time to time, beginning December 7, 1920, none of which, however, was discovered until March 5, 1924. They amounted in the aggregate to over $21,000. The assistant cashier embezzled sums beginning in April, 1923, discovered May 8,…