Carnahan v. Chenoweth

At the November election of 1882, one Peter Ragle was elected treasurer of the county of Martin, and in November, 1884, he was re-elected to that office. For each of such terms he filed a bond in the penalty of $75,-000, some of the parties to this action being his sureties on the first and some on the second of such bonds, and still others on both. Ragle’s time expired in November, 1886, when he left the office a defaulter to the extent of over seven thousand dollars.

When the defalcation had been discovered and the amount thereof ascertained, the appellants and appellees, who, it is alleged,…