State Ex Rel. Foust v. Myers

At the time this litigation was instituted the appellee Roscoe. T. Myers was clerk of the Daviess Circuit Court and the appellee United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company was surety on his official bond. The State Board of Accounts, in discharge of its routine business, made an audit of Myers’ books and concluded that he had collected and retained for his personal use certain fees, aggregating $732, which legally belong to Daviess County. Reports to such effect were filed with the Department of Inspection and Supervision of Public Offices and, upon Myers’ failure to make restitution, said…