Button v. Nevin

This is an action brought by A. M. Nevin, hereinafter called plaintiff, on his behalf and as assignee of some thirteen other parties, against James Benjamin Button, at one time superintendent of banks of the state of Arizona, and National Surety Company, a corporation, the surety on Button’s official bond, hereinafter called defendants, to recover from them certain sums of money deposited by plaintiff and his assignors, in Farmers’ Commercial State Bank, hereinafter called the bank, after the bank had been closed as in an unsafe condition and later permitted to reopen by Button acting in his…