Hill City Independent Consolidated School District No. 10 v. Gentry

Plaintiff school district instituted this action against defendant Gentry, the school treasurer, and National Surety Company, the surety on his official bond, to recover for the loss of certain school money which Gentry, as treasurer, had on deposit in a bank which failed. Issues were joined and the cause came on for trial before a jury, which presently returned a general verdict in favor of the defendants. As a result of some rather unusual proceedings thereafter had in the trial court, no judgment was entered upon the general verdict for the defendants, but judgment was entered in favor of…