Legal Opinion

American Surety Co. v. Morris

Supreme Court of Colorado

Decided January 11, 1926No. 11,083PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Adams

Action by Morris and others, acting as the Executive Committee of Colorado State Grange, suing for its members against Scruggs as principal and the American Surety Company as surety on a fidelity insurance! bond. Judgment against defendants for five thousand dollars, the amount of the bond. The Surety Company alone brings error.

The surety bond covered such pecuniary loss, not exceeding five thousand dollars, as the Grange should sustain in money or other personal property, “by any act or acts of fraud, dishonesty, forgery, theft, embezzlement, wrongful abstraction or wilful misapplication on…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Drummond v. Executors of PrestmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1827
  2. Moses v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
  3. German American Insurance v. HymanSupreme Court of Colorado · 1908
  4. Dixie Fire Insurance Co. v. American Bonding Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1913
  5. Insurance Co. v. . Bonding Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1913

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3Cited by2 opinions

  1. City of Bridgeport v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1926
  2. Fuqua Homes, Inc. v. Western Surety Co.Colorado Court of Appeals · 1980

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