Fidelity Deposit Co. of Maryland v. Cone

Chapter 8861, Acts of 1921, “created a Special Road and Bridge District Number One, of Washington County, Florida”; “created a Board of Bond Trustees to be composed of three (3) members”; and prescribed their “powers and duties”; and provided “that said Trustees shall each give a bond in some approved Surety Company authorized to do business in Florida, payable to the Governor of the State of Florida and his successors in office, in the sum of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties.”

The bill of complaint herein was brought by Fred P. Cone, as…