United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Blackly, Hurst & Co.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 14 — Action by Blackly, Hup.st & Co. against the United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company to Recover on a Fidelity Bond. APPEAL EBOM JEEEERSON CIRCUIT COURT, COMMON PLEAS DIVISION. Judgment tor Plaintiets and Dependant Appeals.
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Case 14 — Action by Blackly, Hup.st & Co. against the United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company to Recover on a Fidelity Bond. APPEAL EBOM JEEEERSON CIRCUIT COURT, COMMON PLEAS DIVISION. Judgment tor Plaintiets and Dependant Appeals. CLASSIFICATION OF QUESTIONS' DISCUSSED, WITH AUTHORITIES. 1. Where employer makes a statement to induce a guaranty company to go on the bond of his bookkeeper, to the effect that the accounts of the employe were periodically examined and found correct up to date, it was error in the court to instruct the jury to find for plaintiff, unless the statement was false…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the court by
CHIEF JUSTICE BURNAM
Reversing.
On the 17th of November, 1900, C. M. Barnett, requested the United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company, of Baltimore, Md., to go security for his honesty and fidelity as bookkeeper and cashier of the firm of Blackly, Hurst & Co., who were engaged in the tobacco business in Louisville, Ky., from the 1st day of December, 1900, to the 1st day of December, 1901. The- application- was made by Barnett upon one of the printed forms of the *131guaranty company, which provides fo.r and requires from the employers of the applicant a statement as to the…
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- Warren Deposit Bank v. Fidelity & Deposit Co.Court of Appeals of Kentucky · 1903
- Belleview Loan & Building Ass'n v. JeckelCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1898
- Deposit Bank of Midway's Assignee v. HearneCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1898
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