City of Los Angeles v. Mellus

Morrison, C. J.:

On the seventh day of December, 1874, the defendant Mellus was elected Treasurer of the City of Los Angeles for the official term next thereafter ensuing, and on the twelfth day of December, 1874, he, as principal, and the other defendants as sureties, made, executed, and delivered to the plaintiff, as an official bond of the said Mellus, as such City Treasurer, their obligation in the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, whereby the principal bound himself in the full sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, the defendant Temple in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, the…