Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Tabler

SOPER, District Judge.

This ease involves the interpretation of a fidelity bond executed by the Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company, as surety for the cashier of the Auburn Exchange Bank. The action was first instituted in the circuit court of Ritchie county, W. Va., by the bank against the company, to recover a loss caused by peculations of the cashier; and was after-wards removed to the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of West Virginia. The trial resulted in a directed verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $21,462.69. This sum represented the defalcation with…