{ "id": 5410935, "name": "Globe Indemnity Company, Appellee, v. Jacob Kesner, Appellant", "name_abbreviation": "Globe Indemnity Co. v. Kesner", "decision_date": "1917-02-09", "docket_number": "Gen. No. 21,870", "first_page": "405", "last_page": "410", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "203 Ill. App. 405" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.", "id": 8837, "name": "Illinois Appellate Court" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 29, "name_long": "Illinois", "name": "Ill." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "54 Ill. 153", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill.", "case_ids": [ 5275991 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill/54/0153-01" ] }, { "cite": "6 Ill. 347", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill.", "case_ids": [ 2467458 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill/6/0347-01" ] }, { "cite": "148 Ill. App. 155", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill. 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Jacob Kesner, Appellant." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Barnes\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nThis action is founded on an indemnifying bond whereby appellant bound himself to pay appellee the sum of $15,500 on certain conditions therein named. In that form it has all the characteristics of a bond. (Chicago Sash Door & Blind, Mfg. Co. v. Haven, 195 Ill. 474.)\nFollowing the paragraph containing the formal obligation the instrument reads:\n\u201cThe condition of the aforegoing obligation is such, that whereas, at the special instance and request of said obligors and on the security hereof, the company has executed, or agreed to execute, a bond in the penal sum of fifteen thousand five hundred dollars, to on appeal in re Margaret V. Hayes against J. L. Kesner Company dated the Twenty-Sixth day of November, 1912, conditioned for the payment of judgment and costs in the above.\n\u201cNow Therefore, if the above bounden Jacob L. Kesner shall and do pay annually in advance, the premium or charges of one hundred fifty five ($155.00) Dollars, made by the Company for executing said bond and continuing same, and shall hold and keep harmless the Company from and against any and all liability, loss, damages, costs, charges and expenses of whatever nature or kind which the Company shall or may at any time sustain, incur, or be put to, for, or by reason or in consequence of the Company having given - and executed the said bond; also all costs and expenses which it may incur in investigating any claim made thereunder or in or about prosecuting or defending any action, suit or other proceedings which may be commenced or prosecuted against said Undertaking on Appeal or against the Company, upon the said bond or any wise in relation thereto; then this obligation to be void, otherwise it is to be and remain in full force and \"virtue.\n(Signed) Jacob L. Kesner (Seal)\u201d\nDefendant pleaded failure of consideration, which was not proven and need pot be considered, for it is no defense to a bond (Raven case, supra), and also failure \u201cto execute a bond in the penal sum of $15,500\u201d on the appeal referred to in the instrument, which was practically the same defense. In fact there was no legal defense pleaded.\nIn conformity with undenied allegations of the statement of claim, plaintiff (appellee) made proof of the bond sued on, of the judgment of a New York Court for said Margaret Y. Hayes against said J. L. Kesner Company, of the execution by plaintiff of an \u201cundertaking on appeal\u201d therefrom, of the dismissal of the appeal, of a suit and judgment against plaintiff on said undertaking, of the payment of $14,656.14 in satisfaction thereof, of interest at six per cent, from date of payment, and of a due and unpaid premium for $155, aggregating $16,496.58, for which the court assessed plaintiff\u2019s damages, defendant offering no evidence.\nThe assigned errors relied upon go to the court\u2019s finding, 'the refusal to hold certain propositions of law, admission of evidence, and the form of the judgment. All hinge on one fact\u2014the undertaking referred to.\nAppellant\u2019s point of law is that his'liability on the bond sued on cannot be extended beyond express terms of his agreement. That is conceded. But his argument is predicated on considering the execution of a penal bond by plaintiff as a condition of the bond sued on. What is thus referred to as a \u201ccondition\u201d of the bond is a mere recital in its \u201cwhereas\u201d clause. The conditions thereof are stated in the following paragraph, and appellant\u2019s liability rests on his undisputed nonperformance of them. It is with the conditions to be performed by the obligor and not the obligee that this action is concerned.\nWhen analyzed, appellant\u2019s only point is that proof of such undertaking on appeal, claimed by appellee to be authorized by the New York practice, is not proof of plaintiff\u2019s execution of a penal bond. As before stated, this seems to go merely to the question of failure of consideration, which could not properly be pleaded.\nBut regardless of whether plaintiff\u2019s agreement contemplated a technical \u201cpenal bond,\u201d or an \u201cundertaking on appeal,\u201d as it is referred to in the quoted final paragraph, or whether by such reference the latter is not properly read as if incorporated in the indemnifying bond (5 Cyc. 757), especially as it was executed the same day and became a part of the same transaction, still the undisputed facts remain that appellant received the benefit of carrying up the Kayes case on appeal through plaintiff\u2019s execution of \u201csaid undertaking on appeal,\u201d and that plaintiff, in consequence of such undertaking, had to pay the judgment appealed from.\nAs we view it, the purport of the recitals in the bond sued on is that' plaintiff executed an instrument adequate to effectuate the appeal sought, and appellant is estopped from denying them. (Arnott v. Friel, 50 Ill. 174; Courson v. Browning, 78 Ill. 210; Mix v. People, 86 Ill. 329.)\nIt is difficult to see how this became an issue necessitating hearing evidence thereon, for the fact of the execution of an \u201cundertaking on appeal\u201d was pleaded and not denied, and the case does not come here on the sufficiency of the statement of claim to support a judgment.\nIn this view of the case it is unnecessary to inquire into the character of the instrument executed by plaintiff, or whether there was competent proof of the New York statutes authorizing it. It is enough, as the proof shows, and appellant admits, that the appeal sought was effected through an instrument executed by plaintiff in consequence of which it had to pay the judgment appealed from. It was to indemnify plaintiff against just such a consequence that appellant executed the bond here sued on, and, having. failed to perform its conditions, he cannot escape liability thereon.\nAs the submitted and refused propositions of law required treating the above recital as a \u201ccondition\u201d of the bond, they call for no additional comment.\nA reversal is urged \u00a1because the action is one of debt and the judgment should accordingly be in the usual form for the penalty, as the debt, to be discharged on payment of the damages. In George J. Cooke Co. v. Burke, 148 Ill. App. 155, this was treated as matter of form and not ground for reversal. Appellant urges it is matter of substance and cites Frazier v. Laughlin, 6 Ill. 347; Freeman v. People, 54 Ill. 153, and the Happen case, supra.\nBut as the interest on the judgment paid by appellee was computed at the rate of six per cent, as allowed by the statute of New York without competent proof of such statute, we should enter the judgment here that should have been entered below, the case having been heard without a jury, and, in doing so, enter it in the usual form. Even if the rules of the Municipal Court are properly in the record, we do not think they authorize a different form of judgment there.\nThe judgment will be entered for the amount of the penalty, $15,500 as a debt, to be discharged upon payment of the damages, assessed at. $17,479.25. This amount includes the amount of the Hayes judgment with interest at five per cent, from time of its payment and the unpaid premium of $155 aforesaid. While the damages exceed the penalty, it is not and cannot be questioned that interest is recoverable in such case even though that be the result.\nReversed and j-udgmewb here.", "type": "majority", "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Barnes" } ], "attorneys": [ "D\u2019Ancona & Pelaum, for appellant.", "Adams, Crews, Bobb & Wesgott, for appellee." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "Globe Indemnity Company, Appellee, v. Jacob Kesner, Appellant.\nGen. No. 21,870.\n1. Indemnity, \u00a7 1 \u2014what is nature of contract of. A written obligation to indemnify a party in a certain amount on certain specified conditions has the characteristics of a bond.\n2. Indemnity, \u00a7 21 \u2014what are not defenses to action on bond. Failure of consideration or to execute another bond agreed to be executed are not defenses to an indemnity bond.\n3. Indemnity\u2014when obligor of bond is estopped to deny recitals of bond. Where the defendant had executed a bond reciting that the obligee had executed or agreed to execute a bond in a certain \u201cpenal sum\u201d on appeal in a certain case and agreeing to indemnify the obligee as to any payment made by the obligee in consequence of having executed such appeal bond, held, in an action on such indemnifying bond, that the purport of such recitals in such bond was that the obligee therein had executed an instrument adequate to effect the appeal sought and defendant would be es-topped from denying such recitals, whether the obligee executed a technical penal bond or not on such appeal.\n4. Debt, Action of, \u00a7 17 \u2014when judgment is not reversibly erroneous. A judgment for damages alone in an action in debt is irregular in form only and not reversible on that ground.\n5. Interest, \u00a7 28 \u2014when rate of interest on foreign judgment is at rate fixed by domestic statutes. Interest on a foreign judgment should be at the rate fixed by the domestic statute in the absence of competent proof of the foreign interest statute.\nAppeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Charles A. Williams, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1915.\nReversed and judgment here.\nOpinion filed February 9, 1917.\nModified and refilled February 19, 1917.\nCertiorari denied by Supreme Court (making opinion final).\nD\u2019Ancona & Pelaum, for appellant.\nAdams, Crews, Bobb & Wesgott, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. \u00a1XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and, section number." }, "file_name": "0405-01", "first_page_order": 429, "last_page_order": 434 }