Duke v. Sinking Fund Commissioner

Opinion by

Judge Pryor:

Where the law provides that the officer- appointed shall hold over until his successor is qualified, his bond would then cover his acts as long as he retains the office, and authorities may be found fixing the responsibility on the surety even where no such condition is annexed to the law creating the office. In the present case the officer was only appointed for one year, and when the surety affixed his name to the bond he obligated himself to become responsible for the period- during which his principal, by the very terms of the act, was authorized to collect.

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