People v. Jansen
New York Supreme Court
THIS was an action of debt on a bond executed by-the father of the defendants, in his life-time, as one of the sureties of Christopher Tappen, one of the loan-officers Qf Ulster county, under the act of the 18th April, J r 1786. (1 Greenleaf's edit, of Laws, 240. 9th sess. c. 40.) . . . . _ The bond was to the plaintiffs, in the penal sum or 7,000 pounds, and in the form prescribed by the act.
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THIS was an action of debt on a bond executed by-the father of the defendants, in his life-time, as one of the sureties of Christopher Tappen, one of the loan-officers Qf Ulster county, under the act of the 18th April, J r 1786. (1 Greenleaf's edit, of Laws, 240. 9th sess. c. 40.) . . . . _ The bond was to the plaintiffs, in the penal sum or 7,000 pounds, and in the form prescribed by the act. The defondants pleaded, 1. Non est factum ; 2. Non damnificatusi ar‘d gave notice of special matter, to be offered ]n evidence at the trial, The cause v/as tried at the Ulster circuit, in September, . Á…
1Opinion of the CourtThompson, J.
This is an action of debt upon the penalty of a bond given to the people of this state, (pursuant to the act of the 18th of April, 1786,) by the defendants’ ancestor, as ■security, that Christopher Tappen should well and truly perform the office and duty of one of the loan-officers of Ulster county. The loan-officer having neglected tó pay into the treasury the money by him received, and *337having become insolvent, recourse is now had to his security. The case discloses that the deficiency of the loan-officer began as early as the year 1791, and continued to increase almost every year until…
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