United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Crittenden

LEVY, Associate Justice.

The plaintiff in error is a surety on the official bond of John Lane as a police officer of the city of Fort Worth. The bond is in the sum of $500, and is payable to the city of Fort Worth, conditioned upon the faithful performance by Lane of his duties as a police officer. Claiming that he was assaulted and wrongfully imprisoned by Lane while acting in his official capacity as a police officer of the city of Fort Worth, the defendant in error Crittenden sued such officer and plaintiff in error as his surety on his official bond. Judgment by default was rendered in…