Ewing v. United States
Arizona Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District, in and for the County of Mohave. Richard E. Sloan, Judge. On July 6, 1896, Henry P. Ewing entered the service of the United States as industrial teacher for the Hualapai Indian Schools in Mohave county, Arizona, and was on the ninth day of July, 1896, appointed special disbursing agent by the Secretary of the Interior of the United States.
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APPEAL from a judgment of the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District, in and for the County of Mohave. Richard E. Sloan, Judge. On July 6, 1896, Henry P. Ewing entered the service of the United States as industrial teacher for the Hualapai Indian Schools in Mohave county, Arizona, and was on the ninth day of July, 1896, appointed special disbursing agent by the Secretary of the Interior of the United States. On July 18, 1896, the said Ewing, as principal, and William H. Lake, Howard H. Watkins, and John S. Kolar, as sureties, executed and delivered to the United States the official…
1Opinion of the CourtDoan, J.
— The appellants have presented several assignments of error, but their entire case is substantially covered by the first, second, third, and fourth assignments. The first error assigned is the overruling of the demurrer to the complaint, upon the ground that there are two causes of action united in the one count, in that it is based upon the breach of two separate bonds; the one bond dated July 18, 1896, and the other dated August 1, 1900. The first bond was executed on the appointment of the defendant Ewing, and, under the provisions of the government for the renewal of bonds every four…
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