Drabek v. Grand Lodge of Bohemian Slavonian Benevolent Society
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Kirk Hawes, Judge, presiding. This was debt by appellee, as plaintiff below, brought against appellants, as defendants, upon a bond made February 14, 1885, by one John A. Schleiss, as principal, who had been elected to the office of grand secretary of plaintiff for the term of one year, and by the defendants as sureties, in the penal sum of $8,000, conditioned for the faithful performance by said Schleiss of the duties…
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Kirk Hawes, Judge, presiding. This was debt by appellee, as plaintiff below, brought against appellants, as defendants, upon a bond made February 14, 1885, by one John A. Schleiss, as principal, who had been elected to the office of grand secretary of plaintiff for the term of one year, and by the defendants as sureties, in the penal sum of $8,000, conditioned for the faithful performance by said Schleiss of the duties of said office and that he would deliver all property, books, papers and money belonging to the plaintiff, which he…
1Opinion of the CourtMcAllister, J.
If Schleiss, the principal in the bond, was, at the close of his first term as secretary, a defaulter in his capacity as such officer, as respected a material amount of the funds of plaintiff below, as seems to have been the fact, and if such fact was known to plaintiff’s president before, and at the time of the delivery by the defendants of the bond in suit, but unknown to the defendants, or any of them, and the latter, before they would deliver said bond, made or caused to be made inquiries of said president, or in open lodge, in his presence and hearing, for information respecting the…
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