Thompson v. Bassett

Debt upon a penal bond. Demurrer to the declaration and judgment for the defendants thereon.

The suit was commenced in June, and tried in August, 1853.

The bond on which the action was brought, was executed on the 12th of Jume, 1852, by Bassett, as principal, and Creese and Aikman, as sureties, payable to Thompson, treasurer of Daviess county, and his successors in office, and conditioned that Bassett, who had been licensed to *536retail spirituous liquors, should not permit gambling, &c., in his house, but should observe the laws, &c.

Breaches of the condition were assigned in the declaration.

There…