State ex rel. Watkins v. Trans-America Insurance Co.

MAUGHMER, Commissioner.

This case came to the writer recently on a reassignment. It is a suit against the surety on the official bond of a notary public. The court sustained defendant’s motion to dismiss the petition for failure to state a cause of action and plaintiff has appealed. On the appeal from that ruling we assume as true all properly pleaded factual allegations of the petition.

Irma M. Roberts on April S, 1965, was commissioned as a notary public within and for the County of Jackson, in the State of Missouri, for a term of four years. Mrs. Roberts as principal, and the defendant…