Price v. Price

Hatcher, President:

This suit involves primarily the right of a surety on an official bond which is insufficient to satisfy all demands against it, to enjoin several actions at law upon the bond and to have all matters connected therewith settled in a court of equity. The circuit court upheld that right.

The treasurer of the City of Dunbar failed to pay over to the parties entitled thereto the collections made by him on certain paving assessments. Shortly after his default, to-wit, during November and December, 1933, two owners of assessment certificates which he had collected brought separate…