State v. Mayor of Baltimore
Court of Appeals of Maryland
, ' Appeal from the Circuit Court for Baltimore city. This appeal was taken from an order of the court below, (Krebs, J.,) dismissing the petition of the State, filed in the case of Elizabeth Smith vs. John S. Gittings, and others, pending in that court, in which certain property of Lambert S. Norwood, late clerk of the court of Common Pleas, conveyed to John S, Gittings, in trust, to indemnify the sureties upon his official bond' as clerk, had been sold and the proceeds…
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, ' Appeal from the Circuit Court for Baltimore city. This appeal was taken from an order of the court below, (Krebs, J.,) dismissing the petition of the State, filed in the case of Elizabeth Smith vs. John S. Gittings, and others, pending in that court, in which certain property of Lambert S. Norwood, late clerk of the court of Common Pleas, conveyed to John S, Gittings, in trust, to indemnify the sureties upon his official bond' as clerk, had been sold and the proceeds brought into court for distribution. This petition claimed for the State the entire balance of the fund in the hands of the…
1Opinion of the CourtEccleston, J.
Lambert S. Norwood having been elected clerk of the Court ,of Common Pleas for the city of Baltimore, in November *5101851, gave bond to the- State of Maryland, on the 29th of that month, in the penalty of *#5000, for the faithful performance of the dudes of his office. On this bond Elizabeth Smith and J. Marbury Turner were sureties. Under the act of 1853, ch. 409, Norwood, as clerk, gave a new bond to the State, on the 29th of June, in the same year, in the penalty of $50,000, on which Elizabeth Smith, J. Marbury Turner and J. Wesley Watkins, became sureties.
On the 26th of September 1853,…
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