American Surety Co. v. Citizens Bank

The plaintiff bank sued the principal and the surety on the official bond of the principal as county superintendent of schools, for damage sustained by the bank from wrongful acts committed by the superintendent under color of his office. The surety company excepts to the denial of its motion for a new *450trial, after a verdict and judgment in favor of the hank for the amount of its loss sustained upon a note, purporting to have been authorized by resolution of the county board of education and to have been signed by its president, but alleged to have been fraudulently certified and forged by…