Curtis v. Parks
California Supreme Court
Appear from a judgment for the plaintiffs, and from an order denying a new trial, in the Eighteenth District Court, County of San Bernardino.
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Appear from a judgment for the plaintiffs, and from an order denying a new trial, in the Eighteenth District Court, County of San Bernardino. McNeary, J. The several sums,_ for which each of the sureties signed the official bond of the administrator, are set out in the complaint, and in all amount to $20,000; the ‘amount signed for by the defendant being $2,000, and his proportionate share of the deficit of $2,800 being $280. There is no allegation in the complaint that any of the sureties had become insolvent. The other facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Ross, J.:
The plaintiffs—six in number—-the defendant, and various other persons, seventeen in all, became sureties in several sums, upon the official bond of one Rogers, as Public Administrator of the County of San Bernardino. The complaint charges that afterward letters of administration in the matter of the estate of one Avaline, deceased, were duly issued to Rogers as such Public Administrator, and that on the same day, the latter entered upon the administration of said estate. That subsequently Rogers was removed, and one Pulwiler duly appointed administrator of the estate, and an order…
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