Postmaster General v. Purber
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Maine
[Error to the district court of the United States for the district of Alaine.] These were actions of debt, brought officially by the postmaster general upon bonds given for the faithful performance of his duties, by one Benjamin Whittier, late postmaster at Belfast, Maine, who is since deceased.
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[Error to the district court of the United States for the district of Alaine.] These were actions of debt, brought officially by the postmaster general upon bonds given for the faithful performance of his duties, by one Benjamin Whittier, late postmaster at Belfast, Maine, who is since deceased. The bonds were in the usual form, with condition, that, if Whittier “shall well and truly execute the duties of his said office, and faithfully', once in three months, and oftener, if thereto required, render accounts of his receipts and expenditures, as postmaster, to the general postoffice, in the…
1Opinion of the Court
STORY, Circuit Justice.
The question, as to the jurisdiction of the court, has been disposed of by the decision of the supreme court, at the last January term, in the case of Postmaster General v. Earley, 12 Wheat. [25 U. S.] 136. That ease was stronger than the present, for it affirmed the jurisdiction of the circuit court, and the language conferring jurisdiction on the district court by the act of 1815, c. 252 [3 Stat. 244, c. 101], is far more direct and cogent. The words of the act are, “that the district court of the United States shall have cognizance concurrent with the courts and…
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