People ex rel. Board of County Commissioners v. Koenig

An action by the people, on relation of the board of county commissioners of the county of Jefferson, to recover from, the county treasurer, Koenig, and Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland, surety on his official bond, the sum of a balance to the credit of the county with Kountze Brothers, a failed New York banking copartnership, for which the treasurer and surety, disclaiming liability, refused to account. The defendants had judgment at trial.

In all essentials the controversy parallels Patterson v. *458People, ex rel., 98 Colo. 86, 53 P. (2d) 1187, where our decision was favorable to the…