Killian v. State ex rel. Spayd

The appellant Gustus Killian was elected trustee of Carter township, in Spencer county, Indiana, on the 2d day of April, 1888, and served as such until August, 1890.

The appellee, as his successor, brought this action, alleging, in one paragraph of his complaint, that on the 11th day of April, 1888, appellant Killian, with his co-appellants, Lawrence Ofer, Willis S. Bryant, George J. Hufnagel, William Schwartz, Michael Heichelbach, Joseph Hang, and Jacob Singer, as his sureties, executed his bond as such trus*262tee, in the penal sum of $17,000.00, a copy of which bond is filed with and made a…