People Ex Rel. Mine Owners' Ass'n v. White

This is an action by the people to the use of the Mine Owners ’ Association, suing as a taxpayer of Teller county in its own behalf and of other taxpayers similarly situated, against John H. White, a former county clerk and recorder of the county, and the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland, a corporation, as surety on his official bond. The object is to secure a' judgment in the sum of $3,937.56, which the complaint says the defendant clerk fraudulently and wilfully misappropriated to his own use, the same being public funds. There was a judgment for the plaintiff in the sum of $124 and…