Commissioners of Moore County v. MacRae
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ActioN tried upon exceptions to a referee’s report, beard at Fall Term, 1882, of Moore Superior Court, before Gilmer, J. The defendant G. A. MacRae was elected treasurer of Moore county in August, 1872, and duly qualified on the 2d day of September, 1872, and his term of office expired on the 4th day of September, 1874. On the — day of September, 1873, he gave bond as such treasurer, payable to the state of North Carolina for the sum of $9,000, with the other…
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Civil ActioN tried upon exceptions to a referee’s report, beard at Fall Term, 1882, of Moore Superior Court, before Gilmer, J. The defendant G. A. MacRae was elected treasurer of Moore county in August, 1872, and duly qualified on the 2d day of September, 1872, and his term of office expired on the 4th day of September, 1874. On the — day of September, 1873, he gave bond as such treasurer, payable to the state of North Carolina for the sum of $9,000, with the other defendants as sureties thereto, conditioned as follows: “The condition of the above obligation is such, that whereas the above…
1Opinion of the Court
MerrimON, J.,
after stating the case. The defendants undertook and obliged themselves by their bond, to make good in money any default of their principal, “pertaining to the school fund” that might go into his hands during his term of office as treasurer, and particularly, for the purposes of this action, that he would, in going out of office, pay over to his successor all sums of money he might then have in his hands belonging to the “school fund.” If he failed to so pay over such money in his hands to his successor, he thereby committed a breach of his bond, and it might then at once be put…
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