Bryan v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
"Writ of error to tbe Circuit Court of the United "States for the District of Columbia. The United States brought an action of debt in the. Circuit .Court against. Joseph Bryan, one of the sureties in the official bond of Samuel D. King, Surveyor General of California.
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"Writ of error to tbe Circuit Court of the United "States for the District of Columbia. The United States brought an action of debt in the. Circuit .Court against. Joseph Bryan, one of the sureties in the official bond of Samuel D. King, Surveyor General of California. It appeared that King was commissioned by the President on the 29th of March, 1851, and executed .his bond with Bryan and others, as sureties, on the same day. . On the 19th of March, 1853, John C. Hays was commissioned as his successor.. On’' the 30th of June, 1853, at San Francisco, Hays gave bond and took the oath. On the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson
This is a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.
The suit was brought by the United States upon the official bond of Samuel D. King, Surveyor General of the public lands of the State of California, against Joseph Bryan, one of his sureties, for moneys received by the principal in the course of the execution of the duties of his office, and which he has not accounted for. The bond was executed on the 29th of March; 1851.
The plaintiff gave in evidence several Treasury transcripts, by which it appeared that, on 30th June, 1853, when King’s term of…
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