Nies v. Metropolitan Casualty Insurance

Opinion by

Me. Justice Simpson,

By a written agreement, executed by plaintiff and defendant, the former became agent for the latter, to solicit, inter alia, fidelity and surety bonds to be executed by defendant, for which services he was to receive twenty per centum of the premium received by defendant for entering the bonds. Admittedly, defendant executed a bond for |2,484,000 for the Wiley Maxon Company of Dayton, Ohio, conditioned for their construction of a bridge across the Susquehanna River between the Boroughs of Columbia and Wrightsville, Pa., in accordance with the terms of their…