State v. Summit Fidelity & Surety Co.

In its effort to escape the responsibility it assumed when it executed and filed the $3,000 bail bond involved in this case, the defendant bond company raises several issues. The principal contention is that it should be excused from liability because the bond was incomplete.

The bail bond, as prepared by defendant company’s agent, Jay Flippin, was in the amount of $3,000, “. . . for the appearance of said Gloria Davis upon the 24th day of April A. D. 1967, at 8:30 o’clock A. M. of that day, before-in the city of Port Washington in said County, to answer a criminal prosecution for theft and…