United States v. Campbell

HOOK, Circuit Judge.

This was an action against the sureties on the official bond of a receiver of public moneys at a local land office of the United States. The-sureties denied liability upon the ground that they gave seasonable notice of the misconduct in office of their principal and of existing defalcations and that they would no longer be held responsible upon the bond, but that the government failed to require a new bond with other security and failed to remove him, and so gave him an opportunity to commit the additional defalcations for which the action was brought. The trial .court,…