Howard v. United States

LINDLEY, District Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court entered in a consolidated cause in which were merged three suits brought upon several bonds of Howard, as receiver and trustee in bankruptcy,, and Continental Casualty Company, as surety, to recover moneys held by such trustee and receiver in bankruptcy on deposit in the Phillip State Bank of Chicago at the time it closed in 1932. Following verdict of the jury, judgment was rendered for $225,740.-45.

The condition of each of the trustee’s bonds was as follows: “Now, therefore, if the said Sam Howard, Trustee as…