Gamble v. Buffalo County

Irvine, C.

This was an action on two official bonds of a former treasurer of Buffalo county. The principal did not answer. There was a trial of issues joined on the answer of the sureties and a judgment in form entered for the plaintiff. The sureties bring the case here for review.

It appears from the record, and is conceded in the briefs, that the supposed judgment was entered at a time w-hen the district court was not in session; in other words, it was the act of the judge in chambers and not of the court. The case being a simple action of a legal nature, and the judgment being for the…