Charleston & Western Carolina Railway Co. v. Robert G. Lassiter & Co.

At the conclusion of all the evidence the defendant Indemnity Company made a motion in the court below for judgment as in case of nonsuit. C. S., 567. The court below sustained this motion, and in this we think there was error.

The part of the bond in question necessary to be set forth in this controversy is as follows: “Know all men by these presents, that we, Robert G. Lassiter & Company, of Oxford, North Carolina, as principal, and London and Lancashire Indemnity Company of America, of Hartford, Conn., as surety, are held and firmly bound unto the Charleston and Western Carolina Railway…