Legal Opinion

Ahsmuhs v. Bowyer

Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Decided September 23, 1913No. 2833PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Error from District Court, Major County; John E. Curran, Special Judge. Action by Ed. Ahsmuhs against E. J. Bowyer, as principal, and others, as sureties on the official bond of E. J. Bowyer, formerly clerk of the district court of Major county. From a judgment sustaining separate demurrers to plaintiff’s petition, he brings error.

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

SHÁRP, C.

Plaintiff’s petition charges that in the year 1908 the defendant E. J. Bowyer was the duly elected, qualified, and acting clerk of the district court of Major county, Okla., and that the defendants W. F. Cousins, W. H. Ogle, and J. P. Oneale were sureties on his official bond; that said bond was executed on the 3d day of August, 1908, and was filed with the county clerk and approved by the chairman of the board of county commissioners on the 6th day of August thereafter. The bond was made payable to the state of Oklahoma, in the penal sum of $2,000, conditioned that the…

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