Helms v. State ex rel. Cunningham

— Appellee sued appellants on the official bond of Albert Helms as trustee of Sugar Creek township in Hancock county, Indiana. The complaint avers that Albert Helms was trustee of Sugar Creek township and that appellants Rice, Eaton, Nichols and Nichols, were sureties on his official bond; that in November, 1888, said Helms as such township trustee, was engaged in erecting a schoolhouse suitable and necessary for the educational purposes of his township; that in order to complete said building it became necessary for him, as trustee, to borrow money and incur debt on behalf of his township,…