People ex rel. Lamb v. Betzold

Mr. Presiding Justice Edwards

delivered the opinion of the court.

On March 18, 1928, appellant, with five other sureties, signed the official bond of Ben Wood as public administrator of Madison county, in the penal sum of $50,000. The bond provided, among other conditions, that such administrator should well and truly administer, according to law, all estates committed to his charge, “and all the rest of the said goods and chattels, rights and credits, which shall be found remaining upon the accounts of the said Public Administrator, the same being first examined and allowed by the Probate…