United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. United States

ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT “OF. APPEALS EOR THE- EIGHTH ■ CIRCUIT. This was an action by the United States against the Guaranty Company to recover from it as surety on the official bond of one Bridgeman, an Indian agent. The facts aré stated in the opinion of the Circuit Court of Appeals and appear in the extract therefrom quoted in the margin.1 The Circuit Court and the Circuit Court of Appeals held that the rejection of vouchers for over ten thousand dollars which contained misrepresentations as to less than two thousand dollars was not the imposition of a:penalty but only-the statutory…