State ex rel. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad v. Shacklett

Appeal from Marion Cirr,uit Court. The plaintiff and appellee cannot recover in this case. The suit is brought on the collector’s bond, and the sureties cannot be made liable in such case unless it is upon a breach of some specific condition or requirement of the bond. In this case, both by the law and by the conditions contained in the bond, as well as by the process or tax book placed in his hands, the collector was required to levy and collect the taxes therein assessed and set forth. The subject matter of levying the taxes was in the jurisdiction of the assessor and others, whose business…