Kaufman v. Pacific Indemnity Co.

Plaintiff Adolphine L. Kaufman brought this action to recover damages for fraud practiced on her by defendant William Kelley, acting as president and agent of defendant Cooperative Bealty Corporation, Ltd. She also named as defendant Pacific Indemnity Company, surety on the statutory real estate broker’s bond of the realty company between January 8, 1932, and December 31, 1932. The court below rendered judgment in plaintiff’s favor for $4,500 against the realty company and Kelley, and judgment against the defendant surety company for $2,000, the penal sum of the bond, without costs. The…