State v. Wells
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Second. Judicial" District, Ormsby County. This was an action against Thomas Wells, former district attorney of Ormsby County, and H. S. Mason, Wm. H. Corbett, James Frazer, and Jacob Sheyer, the sureties on his official bond, to recover the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, alleged to have been collected by said Wells as district attorney for delinquent taxes during the time he held office and converted by him to his own use.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Second. Judicial" District, Ormsby County. This was an action against Thomas Wells, former district attorney of Ormsby County, and H. S. Mason, Wm. H. Corbett, James Frazer, and Jacob Sheyer, the sureties on his official bond, to recover the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, alleged to have been collected by said Wells as district attorney for delinquent taxes during the time he held office and converted by him to his own use. It appears that Samuel C. Denson was district attorney of Ormsby County for the term of 1867 and 1868, and at the'election in…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Whitman J.:
This action is on the official bond of Wells, defendant; and from the judgment of the district court the sureties appeal. About the facts there is no dispute. There being a vacancy in the office of district attorney of Ormsby County, caused *109by tbe resignation of Denson, Wells was appointed in December, 1868, to fill the same, and bis official bond was conditioned for faithful performance during incumbency. No term is indicated by tbe bond itself; but it is claimed by respondent that tbe law fixes it in this way: By general statute, district attorneys are elected every…
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