Thomas v. Western Indemnity Co.
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from El Paso County Court, at Law; W. P. Brady, Judge. Action by the Western Indemnity Company against W. N. Thomas. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
HARPER, C. J.
Through its agent in El Paso, Tex., the Western Indemnity Company was engaged in the business of executing bonds as surety for a moneyed consideration. Appellant, W. N. Thomas, being desirous of operating a jitney motor bus in the city of El Paso, and before doing so it being required of him by city ordinance to file a bond, he approached the appellee’s agent with a view of getting the indemnity company to execute the bond as surety, whereupon its said agent gave to Thomas an application blank to be filled and signed by him.
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2Cases cited1 opinion
- Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. SmithTexas Supreme Court · 1904
3Cited by2 opinions
- Johnson v. Breckenridge-Stephens Title Co.Texas Commission of Appeals · 1924
- W. N. Thomas v. Western Indem. Co.Court of Appeals of Texas · 1923