Magee v. Manhattan Life Insurance
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Alabama. This is a suit by The Manhattan Life Insurance Company of the city of New York against the plaintiffs in error, sureties on the bond of one Henry V. H. Yoorhees, who was the agent of the company at Mobile, Ala.
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Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Alabama. This is a suit by The Manhattan Life Insurance Company of the city of New York against the plaintiffs in error, sureties on the bond of one Henry V. H. Yoorhees, who was the agent of the company at Mobile, Ala. The bond sued on is as follows: — “ Know all men by these presents, That we, Henry Y. H. Yoorhees, as principal, and Jacob Magee and Henry Hall, as securities, of the town of Mobile, and State of Alabama, are held and firmly bound unto the Manhattan Life Insurance Company of the city of New York in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Swayne
The defendant in error sued the plaintiffs in error upon a bond, which recited that Henry Y. H. Yoorhees had been appointed an agent of the insurance company, and was conditioned for his paying over to the company all moneys belonging to it which he should receive.
The breach alleged was that he had received such moneys, which he had failed to pay over.
The defendants pleaded three pleas: —
(1.) That Yoorhees had paid over all moneys belonging to the company which he received after the execution of the bond.
(2.) That, at the time of the execution of the bond, Voorhees, as such agent, was…
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