Nanty-Glo Borough v. American Surety Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Drew,

This action was brought by the Borough of Nanty-Glo, Cambria County, against American Surety Company of New York, surety on the official bond of Benjamin A. Estep, tax collector for the borough for 1922, to recover compensation for losses alleged to have been caused by Estep’s wrongful abstraction and wilful misapplication of moneys collected by him upon his duplicate for that year. Estep was later joined as a defendant. The jury returned a verdict against both defendants, and from the judgment entered thereon the surety appealed, assigning.as error the refusal of…