American Employers' Ins. v. H. G. Christman & Bros.

Sometime in May of 1932 defendant receiver, Howard Emmons, then an auditor of defendant II. G. Christman & Brothers Company, an Indiana corporation, and in charge of the accounting for H. G. Christman Company, another Indiana corporation, requested plaintiff’s agent, John H. Lloyd, then doing business in South Bend, Indiana, as Lloyd Insurance Agency, to secure a construction bond for the H. G. Christman Company. The latter company required a bond in the penal sum of $331,000, run ning to the United States of America, in connection with the construction of the veterans’ administration…