United States v. Hill
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR fO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR .TIIE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS. This was an action at law to recover from the defendants ih error, fees which it was. claimed the’ clerk of. the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts should have accounted for,;the defendants being the clerk and his bondsman. Judgment for defendants to review which this writ of error was sued' out. The, case is stated in the opinion of the court. .
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatchford
On the 5th of February, 1879, Clement Hugh Hill was duly appointed clerk of the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts, by the judge of that court. On the same day he and William Goodwin Bussell and another person executed a joint and several b'ond to the United States in the penal sum of $20,000, conditioned that Hill, “ by him-' self and by his'deputies,” should “faithfully discharge the duties-of -his office, and seasonably record the decrees, judgments, and • determinations of the. said court, and properly account for all moneys coming into .his hands, as…
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