Lord v. Lancey
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Debt on a bond given by Lancey, as principal, and by the other four defendants as his sureties, to “ Ford Whitman, Treasurer of said city of Bangor, in said capacity, in the sum of fifty thousand dollars, to be paid to said Ford Whitman, or his successor in his said office,” and bearing date July 21st, 1836. Ford Whitman had been chosen treasurer, and John Lancey collector of the city of Bangor, for the year 1836 ; and Nathaniel Lord, the plaintiff, was treasurer at the time…
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Debt on a bond given by Lancey, as principal, and by the other four defendants as his sureties, to “ Ford Whitman, Treasurer of said city of Bangor, in said capacity, in the sum of fifty thousand dollars, to be paid to said Ford Whitman, or his successor in his said office,” and bearing date July 21st, 1836. Ford Whitman had been chosen treasurer, and John Lancey collector of the city of Bangor, for the year 1836 ; and Nathaniel Lord, the plaintiff, was treasurer at the time the action was commenced and at the time of the trial. A default was entered by consent of parties, which was to be…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was by
Shepley J.
— The bond of a collector of taxes was formerly required to be made to the treasurer of the town. St. 1821, c. 116, § 23. The act of the 15th of March, 1836, c. 212, provided, that all bonds to be given by collectors of taxes should be given to the inhabitants of the towns, parishes, or plantations, for which they were chosen or appointed. The bond in suit was made by a collector of taxes and his sureties on the twenty-first day of July, 1836, to Ford Whitman, treasurer of the city of Bangor, to be paid to him or his successors in office. If the act of…
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