Postmaster General v. Ustick
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of New Jersey
This was an action of debt brought in the district court, in the name of the postmaster general of the United States, upon a bond given to the postmaster general by the defendants [Ustick.
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This was an action of debt brought in the district court, in the name of the postmaster general of the United States, upon a bond given to the postmaster general by the defendants [Ustick. Potts and Alien], with condition that the defendant Ustick, who had been appointed postmaster at Burlington, should well and truly execute tne duties of the said office; and once in three months, and oftener if required, render accounts of his receipts and expenditures, as postmaster, to the general post office, in the manner prescribed by the postmaster general; and should pay all the moneys that should…
1Opinion of the Court
■WASHINGTON, Circuit Justice.
Whether the mere negligence of the postmaster general to comply with the duties so explicitly imposed upon him, of calling his deputies to account, and commencing suits against them, at the periods required by that law, or at other reasonable periods, is sufficient to discharge the sureties for such deputies, is a question of great difficulty and of vast magnitude, as well to the United States, as to the individual sureties for those deputies. It is one which I think need not be decided in this case; and I feel no disposition to give an opinion upon it until it…
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