State v. Little

The official bond given by the clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, under statutory direction, for the biennial period beginning December 1st, 1923, was conditioned upon the faithful performance of all the duties required of him by law. An alleged breach of his duty to index an instrument in accordance with legal requirements is the basis of this suit on the bond.

■ The amended declaration averred that one of the defendant clerk’s duties was to index all conveyances recorded among the Land Records of Baltimore City in a system of land indexes known as the Block Index System, adopted…