COAHOMA COUNTY, MISS. v. MISSISSIPPI FIRE INS. CO.

No. 7130.

68 F.2d 489 (1934)

COAHOMA COUNTY, MISS., et al. v. MISSISSIPPI FIRE INS. CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 27, 1934.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sam C. Cook and J. L. Roberson, both of Clarksdale, Miss., for appellants.

William H. Watkins and J. Morgan Stevens, both of Jackson, Miss., and Ed. C. Brewer, of Clarksdale, Miss., for appellees.

Before BRYAN, SIBLEY, and HUTCHESON, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

This suit was against sureties on bonds securing county funds, to reform the bonds and recover on them as reformed a balance of about $14,000 in the sheriff and tax collector's account in the failed bank. This amount, as being not county, but state and levee board funds, the sureties had declined to pay. The sureties alleging that they had fully discharged their debt to the county, filed a cross-action for subrogation to the county's position...

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