Guardianship of the Person & Estate of Smith v. Merchants Mutual Bonding Co.

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• general rule that surety is not liable for punitive or exemplary damages as public policy requires that payment rest on party committing the wrong
• impermissible to charge bonding company with penalty imposed for embezzlement or conversion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).