Legal Opinion
Coahoma County v. Mississippi Fire Ins.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 27, 1934No. 7130PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.
This suit was against sureties on bonds securing county funds, to reform the bonds and recover on them as reformed a balance of about $14,000 in the.sheriff and tax collector’s account in the failed bank. This amount, as being not county, but state and levee board funds, the sureties had declined to pay. The sureties alleging that they had fully discharged their debt to the county, filed a cross-action for subrogation to the county’s position against the bank in respect to the depository funds, in respect to county funds in the account of the sheriff and tax…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Adams v. WilliamsMississippi Supreme Court · 1910
- Fogg v. Bank of Friar's PointMississippi Supreme Court · 1902
- Green v. ColeMississippi Supreme Court · 1910
- Commercial Bank v. HardyMississippi Supreme Court · 1910
- Mississippi v. First Nat. Bank of GreenwoodCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1933
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Webster v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1934
- Salmon v. State of Alabama ex rel. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1936