Woodruff v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
ERROR to Pulaski Circuit Court, This was an action of debt, brought in the name of the State, against the plaintiffs in error, on the official bond of William E. Woodruff, given by him as Treasurer of the State, with the other plaintiffs in error, as securities, dated October 27,1836. Breaches were assigned in the declaration according to the statute.
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ERROR to Pulaski Circuit Court, This was an action of debt, brought in the name of the State, against the plaintiffs in error, on the official bond of William E. Woodruff, given by him as Treasurer of the State, with the other plaintiffs in error, as securities, dated October 27,1836. Breaches were assigned in the declaration according to the statute. The breach alleged, that Woodruff, when Treasurer, had received on account of the State, the sum of ‡2,385 18 cents, which he had not paid over or accounted for, whereby he had become liable to pay that amount, with interest at twenty-five per…
1Opinion of the CourtDickinson, J.
The question raised by assignment of error will be determined by the construction given to the several statutes relating to the State Treasurer, and regulating his duties, &c. By the schedule to the constitution (section 2), all laws then in force, in the Territory of Arkansas, not repugnant to the constitution, should remain in force until they expired by their own limitation, or be altered or repealed by the General Assembly; and section five, declares that, “All civil and military officers then holding commissions under the authority of the United States, or of the Territory of Arkansas,…
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