Riner v. New Hampshire Fire Insurance
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to the District Court, Laramie County, Hou. Charles W. Brahel, Judge of the Second District, presiding. This was an action brought by the New Hampshire Insurance Company upon the bond of its agent to recover money alleged to have been received by the agent and not paid over. The surety, Charles W. Biner, was the defendant. The case was tried to a jury, but the court directed a verdict for the plaintiff. The defendant prosecuted error.
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Error to the District Court, Laramie County, Hou. Charles W. Brahel, Judge of the Second District, presiding. This was an action brought by the New Hampshire Insurance Company upon the bond of its agent to recover money alleged to have been received by the agent and not paid over. The surety, Charles W. Biner, was the defendant. The case was tried to a jury, but the court directed a verdict for the plaintiff. The defendant prosecuted error. The facts are stated in the opinion. The agent paid over more money during the period for which suit is brought than he received. Yet the court took the…
1Opinion of the Court
Knight, Justice.
On the 11th day of January, 1891, one Richards was appointed agent at Cheyenne, Wyoming, of the defendant in error insurance company whose principal place of business was at Manchester, in the State of New Hampshire. On the day mentioned, by requirement of the defendant company Richards executed a bond in the sum of five hundred dollars conditioned that, as the agent of the insurance company, authorized to receive sums of money for premiums, payment of losses, salvages, and collections, he would pay over such money correctly, and in every way faithfully perform his duties as…
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