Case Name: Indemnity Insurance Company of North America, Respondent, v. Rose Brennan et al., Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1943-06-03
Citations: 180 Misc. 430
Docket Number: 
Parties: Indemnity Insurance Company of North America, Respondent, v. Rose Brennan et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 180
Pages: 430–431

Head Matter:
Indemnity Insurance Company of North America, Respondent, v. Rose Brennan et al., Appellants.
Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department,
June 3, 1943.
Morris Weintraub for appellants.
Samuel Gottesman for respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
A surety company, which executes its bond for an administrator at a premium of fifty-one dollars and fifty cents and requires an indemnity agreement with a clause for payment of its obligation for expense or attorney fees by reason of execution of the bond, is not entitled to payment for attorney fees for supervising, aiding or coercing the performance of duty or making payments required under the law by the administrator. It may not interject itself into the administration of the estate and obtain payment for expense or attorneys' fees. An attempt to obtain discharge of its bond by requiring the administrator to account does not furnish grounds for such payment. It is only when there is default of performance of his duty under the law by the administrator and bona fide demand upon the surety company of performance of its own obligation under the bond that the surety company may assert liability under the indemnity agreement.
Judgment reversed, with thirty dollars costs, and judgment directed for defendants, with costs.
Hammer and IIecht, JJ., concur; Shientag, J., dissents.