State v. Bank of Quitman

The Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland was surety on the officialbond of Jones, the tax-collector of Brooks county. Jones defaulted, and the surety company “paid off and fully discharged its liability to the State of Georgia, by paying the amount of the default of the said Jones to said State of Georgia.” 'The present suit was brought in the name of the State of Georgia, suing for the use of the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland, to recover from the Bank of Quitman a sum of money alleged to have been received by the bank from Jones in payment of a private debt due by him to it,…