Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland v. Cunningham

Neil Cole was duly elected sheriff and collector of Lawrence County, and assumed his duties as such on January 1, 1923, and he was re-elected for a second term which began January 1, 1925. He gave the usual bond as collector, and practically all of the appellees' in this case were sureties on the bond executed for each of his terms. He gave no indemnifying bond to the sureties on his first bond as collector, but the sureties on his second bond required him to give them an indemnifying bond in the sum of $100,000 at the beginning of his second term. 'This bond was executed by Cole and the…