City of Springfield v. Brown

HOLMAN, Commissioner.

In this action plaintiff sought to recover the full penalty of $10,000 specified in the official bond given by Charles Ray Brown, as principal, with the American Bonding Company of Baltimore, as surety. The defendants filed separate but identical motions to dismiss which were sustained by the trial court.- From the judgment dismissing the cause pláintiff has duly appealed. '

At the time of the occurrence of the events hereafter related the plaintiff was a city of the second class and was operating under the provisions of Chapter 75 (all statutory references are to RSMo…