A retired partner of Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP, a Philadelphia-based law firm, Mr. Mungall died on March 18 at age 97.
Mr. Mungall worked on the Suretyship and Guaranty Restatement with the Reporter, Professor Neil B. Cohen of Brooklyn Law School. Professor Cohen noted, “His task as Associate Reporter was not so much to draft provisions of the Restatement as it was to tutor the young and inexperienced Reporter about the legal issues of importance to the surety bond industry and to provide expert reaction from that perspective to the Reporter’s attempts to state principles common to all suretyship and guaranty contexts. He performed that role graciously and with great patience.”
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Mr. Mungall graduated from Yale College with a degree in Economics in 1937 and then earned his law degree at Harvard Law School. He joined the Stradley firm in 1940, later serving as a lieutenant (junior grade) on several Liberty ships during World War II. After the war, he became the 10th partner at Stradley. For over 50 years he represented sureties until retiring from the firm in 1986.
Mr. Mungall served as chair of the Fidelity and Surety Law Committee of the American Bar Association’s Tort, Trial and Insurance Practice Section, and was a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel and past chair of its Fidelity and Surety Committee. He was also involved in many Philadelphia-area organizations. In 1942, he joined the Orpheus Club of Philadelphia, a singing group, serving as its president from 1974 to 1976 and missing only two concerts in 68 years as a singing member.