Baile v. Equitable Fire Insurance

— This is a suit brought by Baile and Ridenour, the defendants in error, against the insurance company on a policy of insurance issued by the latter. The petition in the case was filed on the 9th day of December, 1874, and on the same day a summons was issued to the sheriff of Johnson county, who served the same by delivering a copy thereof to one E. H. Shotwell, the company’s local agent in the town of Warrensburg, in Johnson county. It is claimed that this copy was delivered to the agent in a store where the agent had a desk for the transaction of his insurance and tax collecting business,…