Shields v. Hightower

This cause has been here before on decree overruling demurrers to the bill of complaint as amended. Yarbrough v. Hightower, 211 Ala. 262, 100 So. 126. The bill, as amended, was filed by the sureties on the official bond of E. C. Robinson as tax collector of Limestone county. The tax collector defaulted. His sureties on his official bond paid the shortage, which was reduced to judgment against them. The complainants, the sureties, seek to be subrogated to the lien of the state and county under the statute upon certain real estate owned by E. G. Robinson during his term of office, which was…