Long v. County Court of Scott County
Illinois Supreme Court
On the eighth of November, 1859, William Salisbury was elected constable of said county, and afterwards, as principal, with appellants as sureties, executed an official bond to the justices of said county, naming them and their successors in office, to the use of the People of the State of Illinois, for, etc., conditioned as the law requires.
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On the eighth of November, 1859, William Salisbury was elected constable of said county, and afterwards, as principal, with appellants as sureties, executed an official bond to the justices of said county, naming them and their successors in office, to the use of the People of the State of Illinois, for, etc., conditioned as the law requires. Suit was brought on this bond to the September term, 1861, of the Circuit Court of' said county, in the name of “The County Court of Scott County,” for use of, etc., there being four counts in the declaration, to each of which the appellants demur.…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
This was an action of debt, institutedfby the County Court, on a constable’s bond, to recover for a breach in failing to pay an account for money collected by the constable, in his official capacity. The bond was executed by Salisbury the constable, and by Long and Beall as his securities, and was made payable to “William Leighton, Robert Husband, and Jesse Husted, county justices, together constituting the County Court of the county of Scott, and State of Illinois, and their successors in office, for the use of the People of the State of Illinois,” etc., conditioned in the usual form for the…
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