Laber v. Gall ex rel. Mercury Indemnity Co.

For some five years, Pearl C. Laber was manager of an apartment house in Washington City. The building was owned by the Federal Savings & Trust Company, then in receivership. The receiver had taken from Saint Paul Mercury Indemnity Company, of Saint Paul, Minnesota, a bond in which the bonding company, as surety, agreed to pay to the receiver any loss on account of any shortage by embezzlement and other means in the accounts of Mrs. Laber. This action was begun by the receiver against Mrs. Laber to recover $2,-484.75, with interest, the amount she was alleged to have misappropriated out of…