State ex rel. Inhabitants of Congressional Township v. Wright

This was an action of debt brought on the 29th of August, 1843, by the state, for the use of the inhabitants of congressional township No. 24 north, in Grant county, and is founded on the official bond of one Wright as school-commissioner.

The declaration sets out the bond and condition, and assigns breaches. It alleges that Wright was elected school-commissioner on the first Monday of August, 1836; that the bond was given on the 31st of October, 1836, and was conditioned for the faithful discharge of the commissioner’s duties, &c.; that the commissioner did not faithfully discharge his duties…