United States v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.

RICE, District Judge.

Briefly the facts out of which this controversy arose are as follows: In 1902 the trustees for the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations executed two certain coal mining leases to the Kansas and Texas Coal Company. 'These leases by assignment became the property of the Central Coal and Coke Company. At the time of the execution of the leases the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, a corporation, executed a bond in the sum of $75,000 conditioned upon the faithful performance by the lessee of the conditions named in the leases. The surety company agreed to the various…