Colello v. Bates

OPINION

By PHILLIPS, PJ.

In this opinion plaintiff in the court of common pleas will be called plaintiff, and defendants there Robert D. Bates, a former sheriff of Jefferson County, and The Home Indemnity Company, a New York corporation, will be called defendant sheriff and defendant corporation respectively.

Defendant corporation issued a bond on defendant sheriff indemnifying any person, or persons, firms or corporations, against loss or damage occurring to them, or any of them, by reason of his misfeasance or malfeasance in office while acting-as sheriff of Jefferson county.

Plaintiff, the…