Green v. Wardwell
Illinois Supreme Court
This cause was submitted to Skinner, Judge, of the Adams Circuit Court, without the intervention of jury, at April term, 1854, of said court. The court found that the bond mentioned in the declaration was the act and deed of the defendants, and that the breaches in the declaration were well- assigned, and gave judgment for plaintiffs. Defendants below appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Catón, J.
This was an action of debt on an official bond against a justice of the peace and his sureties, assigning as a breach, his failure to pay over money which the justice had collected in his official capacity. The suit is brought in the names of the supervisors, as the board of supervisors of Adams county, as successors in office of the county commissioners of Adams county, to whom and their successors, as the statute required, the bond was made payable. The questions presented arise upon demurrers to the pleas, of which it is only necessary to notice those relied upon in the argument;…
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