United States v. Craft

HARRY E. WATKINS, District Judge.

Petitioner, Summit Fidelity and Surety Company, has moved this Court to relieve it from liability upon a bail bond which has heretofore been ordered forfeited, and upon which judgment in favor of the United States has been taken. The United States has filed an answer to the petition, and hearings have been held on the matter, from all of which it appears that there is no dispute as to the following facts:

Keener Ken Craft was arrested July 17, 1956, on a charge made against him in this District, and on that date ex*579ecuted a penal bond in the amount of $1,000…