Grafflin v. State, Use of Ruckle

This appeal brings up a record from the Court of Common Pleas. It appears that in January, 1897, Lewis F. Grafflin, one of the appellants, was appointed by Circuit Court No. 2, of Baltimore City, committee of the estate of Thomas C. C. Ruckle, who had been adjudged by the inquisition of a jury to be a lunatic: That Grafflin thereupon gave bond to the State of Maryland in 'the penalty of thirteen thousand dollars with the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, a body corporate, as surety, conditioned for the faithful performance of the trust reposed in him by the decree which appointed…