Inhabitants of Porter v. Stanley
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On an agreed statement op pacts. This was an action of debt on a bond given by William Stanley, as collector of taxes for the town of Porter for the year 1854, with John Stanley, Washington Colcord and Hazen W. Harriman as sureties. The defendants Colcord and Harriman pleaded the general issue, with a brief statement setting forth payment and settlement of the accounts of Stanley for that year.
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On an agreed statement op pacts. This was an action of debt on a bond given by William Stanley, as collector of taxes for the town of Porter for the year 1854, with John Stanley, Washington Colcord and Hazen W. Harriman as sureties. The defendants Colcord and Harriman pleaded the general issue, with a brief statement setting forth payment and settlement of the accounts of Stanley for that year. The plaintiffs introduced William Stanley, the principal defendant, as a witness, who testified that he used for his private business about $300 of the money he collected in 1854, paying a note of his…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was drawn up by
Tenney, C. J.
William Stanley was the collector of taxes of the town of Porter, for the year 1854, and for the faithful performance of his duty as such, the bond in suit was given. He was also collector and treasurer of the town for the years 1855 and 1856, and gave bonds, with different sureties from those on the bond for the year 1854.
As collector for the year 1854, William Stanley received moneys on the assessment of that year, and a part of the same he omitted to pay into the treasury, or otherwise account for, from the collections so made. But on…
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