County of Greene v. Bledsoe
Illinois Supreme Court
This was an action upon a school commissioner’s bond, brought against the defendant in error. The declaration contains several counts; in the first, the bond is set ont, and the averment that Bledsoe, as school commissioner, loaned one Eakin $1,232, of the school fund of Greene county, on mortgage security, and that “ the title to said real estate was not clear, unencumbered and indisputable, and that the said real estate was not in value treble the amount loaned, as…
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This was an action upon a school commissioner’s bond, brought against the defendant in error. The declaration contains several counts; in the first, the bond is set ont, and the averment that Bledsoe, as school commissioner, loaned one Eakin $1,232, of the school fund of Greene county, on mortgage security, and that “ the title to said real estate was not clear, unencumbered and indisputable, and that the said real estate was not in value treble the amount loaned, as aforesaid, at the time the said loan was made, nor hath been since; that proceedings were had by the successor of Bledsoe, to…
1Opinion of the CourtCaton, J.
The first count of this declaration is upon a bond executed by Bledsoe and his sureties, conditioned that he should faithfully discharge his duties as school commissioner of said county, and should, at the expiration of his term of office, pay over to his successor, the funds in his hands. The count, after setting forth the bond and condition in the usual way, proceeds to aver, that the defendant Bledsoe, as such school commissioner, on the first of February, 1839, had in his hands the sum of $1,232, which he loaned to Eakin, to secure which he took a bond, together with a mortgage upon…
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