Monona County v. Gray

The appellants, with others, were signers of a petition to the board of supervisors for the establishment of a drainage district. The appellants signed a bond in the sum of $6,000, conditioned upon the payment of all costs and expenses incurred in the proposed drainage proceedings petitioned for, in the event that the prayer of the petition should not be granted by the board of supervisors. The drainage district was not established; and this action is by the county upon the bond, to recover the amount alleged to have been paid by the county in costs and expenses so incurred.

The cause was…