Bolmer v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.

HAMILTON, District Judge.

This is an action at law instituted by the committee of an incompetent, appointed under the laws of the commonwealth of Kentucky, to recover on an official bond executed by a prior committee, appointed pursuant to the orders of the Ohio county court. The law and facts are submitted to the court without the intervention of a jury.

The defendant, surety on the bond, makes two defenses; first that this court has no jurisdiction of the action, that its venue is improperly laid; second, that the instrument signed by it as surety was void and of no effect. The facts…