District Township of Bluff Creek v. Hardinbrook
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Monroe Circuit Court. This action is brought upon the official bond of Isaac Ilardinbrook, as treasurer of the District Township of Bluff Creek, in Monroe county, dated March 24,1870. The defendant admits that he has failed to pay over $200 of the money received by him as treasurer, and avers that he made a special deposit of that sum as treasurer in the Albia Deposit Bank, that being all the money then in his hands as treasurer, and he believing such deposit…
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Appeal from Monroe Circuit Court. This action is brought upon the official bond of Isaac Ilardinbrook, as treasurer of the District Township of Bluff Creek, in Monroe county, dated March 24,1870. The defendant admits that he has failed to pay over $200 of the money received by him as treasurer, and avers that he made a special deposit of that sum as treasurer in the Albia Deposit Bank, that being all the money then in his hands as treasurer, and he believing such deposit safe and prudent; that afterwards the bank failed, and the money was wholly lost without his fault. There was a trial to a…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
Upon the trial before the jury, the defendant was introduced as a witness, and testified that he made a deposit of two 'hundred dollars of the money held by him as -treasurer in the Albia Deposit Bank, and told the cashier at the time that he wanted to make it a special deposit; that an ordinary certificate of deposit, drawing interest, was given him in his own right, and he did not notice the mistake until after the bank had failed; that it was his intention to make a special deposit as treasurer, and he supposed the certificate so showed. He then defined the deposit he intehded to make, and…
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