Barker v. Wheeler

This proceeding in error brings here for review a judgment of the district court in favor of Bert Glendore Wheeler, a minor, and against George E. Barker and William S. Rector. The action was instituted by Miss Wheeler’s guardian to recover of the defendants, as sureties upon the official bond of James W. Eller, a sum of money which, it is alleged, Eller received in trust for the plaintiff, and converted to his own use while acting *472as judge of the county court of Douglas county. After stating that the money in question was paid into court by the administrator of the estate of Bert G-.…