Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance v. Defries

On the 23rd day of March, 1926, J. K. Defries instituted an action in the Independence Circuit Court against the Farmers’ Mutual Fire Insurance Company of - Malvern, Arkansas, and J. E. Stanley, W. L. Knight, W. K. Smith, T. J. Fowler, J. W. Lee, W. A. Callis, E. 0. Kilpatrick, J. C. Minen, W. W. Bray, and R. J. Hodges, bondsmen for said company. The plaintiff set up the policy, alleged that he had complied with its terms, and that the defendant company refused to pay the loss, to his damage in the sum of $1,000. He also set up a bond executed by the defendants in the sum of $20,000, and…