State Ex Rel. Hardt v. Dunn and U.S. Fid. G. Co.

This suit was instituted on November 9,1935, in the circuit court of St. Louis County. It is a suit brought by relators, Theodore Hardt and Mary Hardt, husband and wife, against defendants as principal and surety on the bond of a notary public. The bond was in conventional form, the penalty being in the sum of $5000, and was executed on December 6, 1927.

The amended petition set out in substance that on August 26, 1930, they signed a paper purporting to grant to the Phillips Pipe Line Company an easement to construct a pipe line for transporting oil, gas, etc. across their 6.21 acre tract…