Riley v. Shumate

The chancellor on June 27,1939, in the cause of State of Tennessee ex rel. A. G. Shumate, County Judge of Claiborne County, v. G. S. Sharp et al., pending in the chancery court at Tazewell, entered a decree against G. S. Sharp, trustee of said county, and the twenty-three sureties on his official bond, for the sum of $27,063, being the amount that said trustee was short in his account. From that decree the trustee prayed and was granted an appeal to the Court of Appeals, which he perfected by subscribing to the oath provided for poor persons. The twenty-three sureties did not appeal. Pending…