Robertson & Govanne Contracting Co. v. Aetna Accident & Liability Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover the amount of a judgment rendered in favor of the plaintiff against a third person, payment of which the defendant had guaranteed by its bond, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the jury before Bennett, J.; by direction of the court the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for $6,474, and from the judgment thereon the defendant appealed. The plaintiff is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of New York.
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Action to recover the amount of a judgment rendered in favor of the plaintiff against a third person, payment of which the defendant had guaranteed by its bond, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the jury before Bennett, J.; by direction of the court the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for $6,474, and from the judgment thereon the defendant appealed. The plaintiff is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of New York. The defendant is an accident and liability company in Hartford, in this State. It appears from the finding that on the 11th day…
1Opinion of the CourtRoraback, J.
The defendant insists that this obligation should be construed under the provision of chapter 157 of the Public Acts of 1911 (p. 1423), relating to an attachment bond given by order of a judge. This statute provides that “if the said-shall pay any judgment that may be recovered against him in such action not exceeding the amount of—¡-dollars (the amount of damages demanded by said writ), or in default of such payment, shall pay to the officer having the execution issued on such judgment, on demand, the actual value of the interest, not exempt from attachment and execution, of the said-in said…
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