Inhabitants of Cumberland Co. v. Pennell
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. Debt upon the official bond of Thomas Pennell as treasurer of the county of Cumberland, for the year 1874-, executed by Pennell as principal and the other defendants as sureties, containing the following condition : “ The condition of this obligation is such that whereas the said Thomas Pennell has been duly elected to the office of county treasurer of said county and entered upon the duties thereof; now, if the said Thomas Pennell shall well and faithfully…
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On exceptions. Debt upon the official bond of Thomas Pennell as treasurer of the county of Cumberland, for the year 1874-, executed by Pennell as principal and the other defendants as sureties, containing the following condition : “ The condition of this obligation is such that whereas the said Thomas Pennell has been duly elected to the office of county treasurer of said county and entered upon the duties thereof; now, if the said Thomas Pennell shall well and faithfully attend to the duties of said office and perform all things required by said office to be performed, from the first day of…
1Opinion of the CourtVirgin, J.
Debt on the official bond of Thomas Pennell as treasurer of the county of Cumberland, executed by him as principal with the other defendants as his sureties, and conditioned that he “ shall well and faithfully attend to the duties of said office, and perform all things required by said office to be performed, from the first day of January, 1874, to the first day of January, 1875, the term to which he has been elected.”
Under the brief statement pleaded, the defendants offered to prove, in substance, that on December 30, 1874, while Pennell was sitting in the treasurer’s office, with the door…
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