Gilbert v. Board of Education

The opinion of the court was delivered by

VALENTINE, J.:

On January 30,1889, the Board of Education of the city of Newton commenced an action in the district court of Harvey county against G. W. Holmes, an ex-treasurer of such board, and his sureties on two certain bonds, to recover $3,857.14, an alleged balance due from Holmes as *33said ex-treasurer, which he had not at any time accounted for. The defendants W. G. Pearson, who signed only the first of the aforesaid bonds, and Fox Winnie, A. B. Gilbert, Joseph Gerson and McKinney Smith, who signed only the second of such bonds, and some of the…