Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1909 — SURETY COMPANY MUST PAY [ARTICLE]

SURETY COMPANY MUST PAY

Widow Wins Suit Against Corporation That Furnished Saloon Bond. Indianapolis, Dec. 17. —The appellate court has held in a case appealed from Kentland that the American Surety company is liable for $1,237 on the bond of a saloonkeeper sued by the widow of Charles G. Holtam. The saloonkeeper, now dead, sold Holtam liquor on a winter Sabbath. Holtam fell by the roadside and died from the exposure. The court declared that the company is liable on the bond to Holtom’s family for the “loss of support.”