State ex rel. Board of Commissioners v. Flynn

— This action was commenced and prosecuted by the State, on the relation of the board of commissioners of Tippecanoe county, to recover against David IP. Flynn, as principal, and his co-appellees herein, as sureties, on'liis official bond as clerk of the circuit court of that county. The amount in controversy herein being in excess of $6,000, and as the case was pending in this court at the time of the passage of the act of March 12, 1901 (Acts 1901, p. 565), wo, under §12 of that statute, retained jurisdiction over the appeal. The complaint originally consisted of five paragraphs. The…