Gaston v. Collins

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

This was an action to recover a money judgment against the defendant sureties on a guardian’s bond.

The record consists of a petition, an amended petition, an answer and cross petition, an amended reply, a supplemental answer, a second amended reply, summarized statements concerning certain exhibits in these pleadings, and copies of letters more or less pertinent — from all of which, with the help of the briefs, the essential facts of the case may be stated as follows:

On December 31,1926, one Arthur B. Collins, of Mitchell county, an…