McKenzie v. Standard Accident Insurance

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Associate Justice Fishburne.

This was an action in the Court below upon an administrator’s bond in the usual form. The case was brought for the purpose of holding Standard Accident Insurance Company liable as surety upon the bond of M. L. McKenzie, as administrator of the estate of Mrs. A. V. Collins, deceased.

Mrs. Collins died intestate on December 28, 1933, and the administrator of her estate was appointed on October 17, 1934. On the same day he qualified and gave bond with the defendant as his surety in the sum of $2,000.00. In proceedings had on…