State ex rel. Bank of Brookston v. Stout

This was an action upon the official bond of Thomas G-. Stout as trustee of Grant township, Newton county. A demurrer of the principal and a demurrer *447of the sureties to the complaint, for want of sufficient facts, were sustained. Omitting portions of the complaint not requiring notice, it appeared in its averments that on the 15th of December,. 1896, Stout, as such trustee, and while discharging the duties of the office, purchased of George M. Ray certain school supplies, being seven atlases of the world, seven American Standard dictionaries of the English language, and seven pictorial views;…