Fort Smith-Van Buren Bridge District v. Johnson

Appellant, a bridge improvement district, brought suit against the collector of its revenues and the American Surety Company, which made his bond, in the circuit court of Sebastian County, Fort Smith District, to recover an alleged shortage of $1,250.67 in the collector’s account with it. The complaint alleged that, before the collector entered upon his duties and obligations to collect the assessment of benefits in the district from the property owners therein, he was required to give a bond in the sum of $10,000, which was made by his co-appellee, American Surety Company of New York, the…