Thorne v. Travellers Insurance
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1874, No. 177. This was an action of debt, brought January 30th 1873, by The Travellers Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, against Robert Thorne, John Heath and Andrew E. Baum.
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Error to the District Court of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1874, No. 177. This was an action of debt, brought January 30th 1873, by The Travellers Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, against Robert Thorne, John Heath and Andrew E. Baum. The plaintiffs were a life and accident insurance company, incorporated by the state of Connecticut; the suit was for the breach of the condition of a bond of defendants to plaintiffs, dated July 25th 1870, in the penal sum of $5000. The bond recited that Thorne had been appointed agent of the company for the western part of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mercur
Although twenty-seven errors were assigned, eight only were urged on the argument. The main contention in the case arises under the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th assignments. They will be considered together. They raise the question of the effect upon the rights of the defendants in error, on their failing to comply with the requirements of the Act of 11th April 1868, Purd. Dig. 796, pl. 28.
The defendants in error are a foreign life and accident insurance company, organized under the laws of the state of Connecticut. Thorne had been acting as an agent for the company, in the western part of…
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