State, use Lafayette County v. Hall
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Lafayette county. Hon. B. T. Kimbrough, Chancellor. The bill in this case was filed by the state in behalf of Lafayette county against ,J. M. Hall, former treasurer of said county, and the sureties on his bonds, executed as such for two successive terms of office.
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From the chancery court of Lafayette county. Hon. B. T. Kimbrough, Chancellor. The bill in this case was filed by the state in behalf of Lafayette county against ,J. M. Hall, former treasurer of said county, and the sureties on his bonds, executed as such for two successive terms of office. The jurisdiction of the chancery court was invoked to reform the bond, which was, in form, a general bond, so as to include the school-funds within its protection, this being the intention of the parties. The court decreed a reformation of the bonds, and an accounting, and from this decree an appeal was…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, J.
The effect of the former decision of this court in this case, on the earlier appeal, was to reform the bond of the treasurer and his sureties, so as to make it conform to the rqal purpose of the parties, and, i-n the further progress of the litigation, the reformed bond was to be treated as the school-fund bond of the parties. The prime object of the appeal to chancery was the reformation of the bond, and that appeal was perfectly sustained by this court in its former opinion in this case. The bond should have been regarded and treated in the court below precisely as if the treasurer and his…
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