Barton County v. Harrington

This is a petition to the circuit court of *119Barton county, stating that the defendant was collector of the county, and in 1871 was a defaulter for upward of $2,000; that on the 8th day of November of that year, the county court accepted a bond from him and his securities for that sum and a mortgage of certain real estate. The bond was payable in three years, and bore six per cent, interest. The petition proceeds to state that in 1872 the said court combining and confederating with said Harrington, and for the purpose of cheating and defrauding the county, ordered the clerk to cancel said bond…