Board of Trustees v. Baker

This was a suit below on the official bond of defendant in error, James D. Baker, as Township Treasurer, to recover certain funds belonging to school district number three in his township. The breach assigned in the declaration is, that there came to the hands of the said Baker as such treasurer, money belonging to said district three; that it was his duty not to loan the same except on mortgage security on unincumbered real estate in value at least double the amount of money loaned; that in violation of that duty he did, on the 28tli of November, A. D. 1881, loan of said funds of said…