State v. Dunn

The appellants, sureties on the bond of a late Sheriff of the parish of East Feliciana, seek to be relieved from liability for his defalcation as a State Tax Collector, under the assessment roll for the year 1854.

*550We do not find that there was any material alteration in the bond. The sum for which, and the conditions upon which, each of the sureties bound himself severally, were in no wise changed by the erasure of the unmeaning phrase, “ for a like sum,” and the interlineation of the names of the last two sureties. The date of the acceptance formed no part of the instrument, as at first…