Gartley v. People ex rel. Pueblo County
Supreme Court of Colorado
Appeal from the District Court of Pueblo County. This is an action brought for the use of Pueblo county, against Wilson P. Gartley, as principal, and J. B. Orman, William Crook, W. PI. Anderson and A. M. Pryor and others, as sureties upon his official bond, as county treasurer of Pueblo county.
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Appeal from the District Court of Pueblo County. This is an action brought for the use of Pueblo county, against Wilson P. Gartley, as principal, and J. B. Orman, William Crook, W. PI. Anderson and A. M. Pryor and others, as sureties upon his official bond, as county treasurer of Pueblo county. The complaint, inter alia, avers his election to said office, the due execution and delivery of a bond in the prescribed form, with the statutory condition; charges that lie received, in his official capacity, the sum of $10,218.34, which he failed to turn over to his successor in office, and which he…
1Opinion of the Court
Chiee Justice PIayt
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an action against the county treasurer of Pueblo county, and the sureties upon Ms official bond, for failure to pay over certain public moneys collected by such treasurer. The answer sets up several inconsistent defenses, the most important of wliich is the claim that the money was deposited by the treasurer in his official capacity in a repu*157table and solvent banking institution, which subsequently failed, so that the money was entirely lost, and, as it is alleged, without any fault or negligence on the part of the treasurer. The…
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