Hampel v. Mitchell

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

J. H. P. Davis & Co., a partnership engaged in tbe banking business, gave two bonds to secure the deposits of Ft. Bend county, Tex., in their bank. Both were joint and several bonds, signed by the partnership as principal, and by tbe partners and others who were not members of the partnership as sureties. After the partnership and the individual members thereof were adjudged bankrupts, the county was allowed by order of the District Court to prove its daim under the bonds as a debt, not only of tbe partnership estate, but also of tbe estates of the partners as…