Carson v. De Witt County

In February, 1927, the commissioners' court of De Witt county selected the First State Bank of Westhoff, in said county, as the official depository of the public funds of said county, as provided in chapter 2, tit. 47, R.S. 1925 (article 2544 et seq.), and said bank executed its bond, with individual sureties, for the sum of $249,900, payable to the county and conditioned as required in article 2547. Late in the same year the bank executed its additional or supplemental bond, with personal sureties, in favor of the county in the sum of $100,000.

At the time the second bond was executed the…