Loving v. Auditor of Public Accounts
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of the city of Richmond, rendered 3d July, 1882, in the chancery cause therein pending, in which Henry Loving, Sr., Alfred G. Pettitt, E. H. Pettitt and William K. Watts are plaintiffs, and John E. Massey, as auditor of public accounts of the State of Virginia, and N. C. Taliaferro, late general agent and storekeeper of the penitentiary of Virginia, are defendants.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of the city of Richmond, rendered 3d July, 1882, in the chancery cause therein pending, in which Henry Loving, Sr., Alfred G. Pettitt, E. H. Pettitt and William K. Watts are plaintiffs, and John E. Massey, as auditor of public accounts of the State of Virginia, and N. C. Taliaferro, late general agent and storekeeper of the penitentiary of Virginia, are defendants. Taliaferro was elected to that position for two years, beginning 1st January, 1876, and re-elected for a similar term, ending 31st December, 1879. He gave the official bond required by law for…
1Opinion of the CourtLewis, J.
The first question to be determined in this case is the effect upon the rights of a public officer and his sureties of a statute reducing the compensation of such officer, passed after his appointment and the execution of his official bond.
The appellants were sureties on the official bonds of H. C. Taliaferro, late general agent and storekeeper of the penitentiary. He was chosen by the legislature to that position for a term of two years, commencing on the 1st day of January, 1876, and was re-elected for a second term, commencing on the 1st day of January, 1878.
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