Proctor Coal Co. v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.

NEWMAN, District Judge.

This is a suit by the plaintiff against the defendant on a fidelity insurance bond. The original declaration was demurred to, when amendments were filed by the plaintiff, to which amendments demurrers have also been filed. On December I, 1898, the defendant company entered into a contract with the plaintiff company, by which it insured the plaintiff against loss by reason of any act of fraud or dishonesty on the part of one C. H. Stanton. The Proctor Coal Company had its office at Knoxville, Tenn., and Stanton had charge of its business at Atlanta, Ga. The bond was in…