United States v. Cash
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Georgia; Samuel H. Sibley, Judge. Action at law by the United States against Leonard F. Maxwell, principal, and E. V. Cash and C. R. Brown, sureties. From a judgment sustaining a demurrer by the sureties, plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WALKER, Circuit Judge.
This was an action commenced in July, 1922, against the principal and sureties on a postmaster’s bond dated March 30, 1917. The petition contained averments to the following effect: The principal entered upon the discharge of his duties as postmaster, and was and continued to be such postmaster until the 15th day of August, 1918. He made default on that date. His accounts with the Post Office Department were finally audited, settled, and adjusted in the general accounting office of the Treasury Department on March 11, 1922, in compliance with section 305 of chapter 18 of…
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