United States v. Tingey
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the district of Columbia, for the county of Washington. *This suit was instituted in the circuit court, by the United States against Thomas Tingey, as one of the sureties of Lewis Deblois, who ■- had been appointed a purser in the navy of the United States. The declaration first filed was in the common form of debt on a joint and several bond, and the defendants prayed oyer of the bond and condition, and pleaded eight several pleas.
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Error to the Circuit Court of the district of Columbia, for the county of Washington. *This suit was instituted in the circuit court, by the United States against Thomas Tingey, as one of the sureties of Lewis Deblois, who ■- had been appointed a purser in the navy of the United States. The declaration first filed was in the common form of debt on a joint and several bond, and the defendants prayed oyer of the bond and condition, and pleaded eight several pleas. On the first, second and seventh pleas, issues in fact were joined ; and to the other pleas, the United States demurred generally.…
1Opinion of the Court
Story, Justice,
delivered the opinion of the court. — This is a writ of error to the circuit court of the district of Columbia, sitting at Washington. The original action was brought by the 1 United States upon a bond executed by Lewis Deblois, and by Thomas Tingey and others, as his sureties, on the 1st of May 1812, in the penal sum of $10,000, upon condition that if Deblois should regularly account, when thereto required, for all public moneys received by him, from time to time, and for all public property committed to his care, with such person or persons, officer or officers of the…
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