Bahnsen v. . Clemmons
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ActioN tried at Spring Term, 1878, of Forsythe. Superior Court, before Buxton, J. The case is sufficiently stated by The Chief Justice in delivering the opinion of this Court. There was judgment-for plaintiff and the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The plaintiff’s intestate, 0. A. Keehln for several years prior and up to June the 1st, 1861, held the office of post-master at Salem, and as such had received and then held the sum of three hundred and thirty dollars and twenty-two cents, moneys belonging to the government off the United States. The defendant had entered into divers-contracts for carrying the mails, under which there was a much larger sum due him from the post office department.
The balance in the intestate’s hands had been from time to time under orders of the department, paid over to the defendant and his receipts taken…
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