Board of County Commissioners v. Greenleaf
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Fillmore county against Julia F. Greenleaf and Maurice E. Todd, as principals, and M. T. Grattan and others, as sureties on a bond. The issues arising on the answer of defendant sureties were tried before Kingsley, J., and a jury, which was directed to render a verdict in favor of defendants. From an order denying a motion for a new trial, plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
START, G J.
The defendants Julia F. Greenleaf and Maurice E. Todd were partners in the banking business at Preston, this state, under the name of the Fillmore County Bank, and were selected and designated as a depositary of the public funds of Fillmore county pur*243suant to the statute. ' They qualified as such depositary by executing as principals a bond to the county in the penal sum of $10,000, with the respondents herein as sureties. Default was made in the condition of the bond, in that the principals failed to pay over to the county treasurer, on due demand, the sum of $2,824.80 of the…
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