Oldham's Trustee v. Hume

Opinion by

Judge Pryor:

It is evident from the entire record that the trustee, Smith, exercised all the diligence required of him as trustee in collecting, or having collected, the taxes due the state and for which the sureties were bound, and also in collecting the fees or fee bills due and owing the sheriff. Dooly says that at a meeting of the sureties in regard to the tax books and the collection of taxes for the year 1873, it was agreed that Oldham should for a while proceed to collect what he could, and this conclusion seems to have resulted from the fact that no one could then be found…