Taylor County v. King
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Adams District Court. This action was brought to recover against the defendant P. 0. King for alleged default made by him as treasurer of tbe plaintiff county. The other persons joined with him as defendants were sureties upon his official bond. The action is brought upon such bond. There was a trial to a jury, and verdict and judgment were rendered for the plaintiff. The defendant sureties appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Adams, Oh. J.
The appellant sureties claim that the bond has no validity as to them, because, as they allege, the *154bond was signed with conditions, and not to be delivered until the conditions should be pex-fornxed; the conditions being that the signatures of other persons should be obtained, and that the persons signing the bond should quality as the ownei’s of property amounting in the aggregate to $65,000, which was not done. It ajxpears, we think, from the evidence, that the appellant sureties, after signing the bond, left it with one Johnson and one JDunlavey; that the urxderstanding…
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