Watertown Savings Bank v. Mattoon
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover the amount of a bond given to secure the faithful performance of the duties of treasurer of the plaintiff bank, brought to the District Court of Waterbury and thence, by the defendants’ appeal, to the Superior Court in New Haven County where a demurrer to several defenses was sustained (Case, J.') and the cause was afterward tried to the court, Thayer, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the sureties for alleged error in…
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Action to recover the amount of a bond given to secure the faithful performance of the duties of treasurer of the plaintiff bank, brought to the District Court of Waterbury and thence, by the defendants’ appeal, to the Superior Court in New Haven County where a demurrer to several defenses was sustained (Case, J.') and the cause was afterward tried to the court, Thayer, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the sureties for alleged error in sustaining the plaintiff’s demurrer to three of their defenses.
1Opinion of the Court
Torrance,
C. J. In July, 1902, Burton H. Mattoon was the treasurer of the plaintiff bank, and as such officer gave to it the bond in suit, signed by himself as principal and by the other three defendants as sureties. The bond was in the usual form of fidelity bonds, for the sum of $10,000, payable to the plaintiff bank, dated July 1st, 1902, and was approved by the directors of said bank July 7th, 1902.
The complaint alleged that Mattoon, while treasurer of said bank, in September, 1903, embezzled certain funds of said bank, and had never repaid or accounted for the same.
The sureties filed an…
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