State ex rel. Bell v. Yates
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Callaway Circuit Court. — lion. Alex. E. Waller, Judge. The Statute of Limitations is not a defense in this case, for the reason that there, was fraudulent concealment by the treasurer, W. B. Thomas, of the plaintiff’s ■ cause of action.
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Appeal from Callaway Circuit Court. — lion. Alex. E. Waller, Judge. The Statute of Limitations is not a defense in this case, for the reason that there, was fraudulent concealment by the treasurer, W. B. Thomas, of the plaintiff’s ■ cause of action. At the monthly meetings of the board of managers of the State Hospital for the Insane, Mr. Thomas presented his written reports, which purported to show all of the money that he had received, from whom he had received it, the date when it was received and to whom payments had been made. By comparing these statements, or settlements, with the…
1Opinion of the CourtLamm, P. J.
The State sues in the circuit court of Callaway county, at the relation and to the use of Bell, treasurer of State Hospital No. 1, on August 5, 1905, on the bond of an absconding ex-treasurer, Thomas, to recover $7721.06 alleged to have been wrongfully converted by him to his own use. of the moneys of the hospital in his hands. Defendants are Thomas’s sureties on his official bond in the penal sum of $24,000, dated April 13, 1897, the condition of the bond running:
“Whereas, the said William D. Thomas was, on the 12th day of April, 1897, duly appointed to the office of *281treasurer of the State…
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