616.15  Surety companies.

Suit may be brought against any company or corporation furnishing or pretending to furnish surety, fidelity, or other bonds in this state, in any county in which the principal place of business of such company or corporation is maintained in this state, or in any county wherein is maintained its general office for the transaction of its Iowa business, or in the county where the principal resides at the time of bringing suit, or in the county where the principal did reside at the time the bond or other undertaking was executed; and in the case of bonds furnished by any such company or corporation for any building or improvement, either public or private, action may be brought in the county wherein said building or improvement, or any part thereof is located.

Section History: Early form

  [S13, § 3500-a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 11047; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 616.15]


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