Case Name: H. R. Dodge et al., Respondents, v. B. F. Corliss, Appellant
Court: Washington Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Washington
Decision Date: 1902-03-17
Citations: 27 Wash. 685
Docket Number: No. 3628
Parties: H. R. Dodge et al., Respondents, v. B. F. Corliss, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Washington Reports
Volume: 27
Pages: 685–686

Head Matter:
[No. 3628.
Decided March 17, 1902.]
H. R. Dodge et al., Respondents, v. B. F. Corliss, Appellant.
APPEAL-DISMISSAL — AUTHORITY OP SURETY COMPANY TO EXECUTE BOND.
An appeal will be dismissed where the surety upon the bond is a surety company which has failed to comply with the law requiring such companies to procure a license from the state insurance commissioner authorizing it to do business in this state.
Appeal from Superior Court, Thurston County. — Hon. Oliver V. Linn, Judge.
Appeal dismissed.
J. W. Robinson and E. H. Fox, for appellant.
Troy & Falknor, for respondents.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
An order was entered in court dismissing the appeal in the above-entitled cause on the 25th day of May, 1900, but the reasons for granting the order dismissing said appeal were not at the time filed in writing. It is now considered, upon the suggestion of J. W. Robinson, Esq., of counsel for the appellant in said cause, that the reasons for said decision in writing be filed herein.
The motion to dismiss the appeal was based upon the objections that the bond on appeal was executed by the United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company, as surety, by an agent of the company, and that at the time said bond was executed the agent had no license from the state insurance commissioner to execute any bond, and that the United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company had not, at the date of its execution of said bond, a certificate of authority from the state insurance commissioner authorizing said company to do business in this state. The superior court found the facts as stated in the objections, but approved the bond. The objections are renewed here. It is considered by the court that the said surety, the United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company, had not complied with the law Requiring it to procure such certificate of authority from the insurance commissioner at the time it executed the bond, and, because of such failure to comply with the law, said company is not a qualified surety on the appeal bond, and the appeal should be, and is, therefore, dismissed.