United American Fire Insurance Co. v. American Bonding Co. of Baltimore
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal fi*om a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: OeREU T. Williams, Circuit Judge. The plaintiff is a fire insurance company. One Greene was appointed as its agent to represent it in Chicago. Said Greene was employed under two contracts, one written and •one oral. The written contract authorized the agent to write surplus lines of insurance in certain specified states.
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Appeal fi*om a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: OeREU T. Williams, Circuit Judge. The plaintiff is a fire insurance company. One Greene was appointed as its agent to represent it in Chicago. Said Greene was employed under two contracts, one written and •one oral. The written contract authorized the agent to write surplus lines of insurance in certain specified states. It ran for one year from March 1, 1908, and authorized the agent to receive proposals for insurance, fix rates of premium, receive moneys, countersign, issue and renew and consent to the transfer of policies,…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed June 1, 1911:
ÜAmras, J.
The bond sued on obligated the surety to-“make good to the employer, within sixty days, any loss sustained by the employer by larceny or embezzlement committed by the employee during a term” of one year from February 1,. 1908. The appellant contends that no competent proof was offered to show that the agent, Greene, had collected or at any time had in his hands any money belonging to- the plaintiff which had not been paid to it, and that the court erred in directing a verdict for the plaintiff and in refusing to direct one for the…
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