Temple v. People

The appellant was clerk of the Circuit Court and ex-officio recorder for Knox county, from 1868 to 1872, and this action is instituted upon his official bond by Winters to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by him for a failure upon the part of appellant to properly perform the duties of recorder. The particular breach of duty alleged in the declaration upon which the action is predicated consists in his failure to keep as recorder a correct sectional index, showing the conveyances Of real estate in that county, whereby Winters was induced to take a mortgage upon lots 6 and 17, in…