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Mystic Workers of the World v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided December 23, 1909No. Gen. No. 14,811PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Action in debt. Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Edwin K. Walker, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1908.

1Opinion of the Court

Mr. Presiding Justice Holdom

delivered the opinion of the court.

This case was tried before a judge of the Municipal Court, without the intervention of a jury, upon an agreed statement of facts, which appears in the record. Defendant was sued upon a surety bond known as a schedule bond, which indemnified plaintiff against certain delinquencies, among others, of the financial officers of subordinate lodges, called “Bankers,” among which was the Blue Island Lodge No. 369, of which one Ernest Boermel was at the time banker. The condition or operative words of the bond are to “make good and…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. United States v. BoydSupreme Court of the United States · 1841
  2. County of Mahaska v. IngallsSupreme Court of Iowa · 1864
  3. Roper v. Trustees of Sangamon Lodge No. 6Illinois Supreme Court · 1878
  4. Inhabitants of Rochester v. RandallMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1870
  5. Stern v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1880

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3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Paulin v. American Surety Co. of New YorkAppellate Court of Illinois · 1917

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