State v. Pederson
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Rusk county: Johw 3L Parish, Circuit Judge. This is an action commenced August 5, 1905, against the sureties upon the bond of the First National Bank of Lady-smith, a state depository. The bond was given to the state March 5, 1903, in the penal sum of $50,000, and conditioned to repay upon demand to the state treasurer, with interest,, all such state funds as said treasurer might deposit in said bank.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Rusk county: Johw 3L Parish, Circuit Judge. This is an action commenced August 5, 1905, against the sureties upon the bond of the First National Bank of Lady-smith, a state depository. The bond was given to the state March 5, 1903, in the penal sum of $50,000, and conditioned to repay upon demand to the state treasurer, with interest,, all such state funds as said treasurer might deposit in said bank. The balance claimed to be due in the complaint was $8,488.70, but it appeared by the evidence that the.bank went into the hands of a receiver June…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed January 28, 1908:
"WiNsnow, O. J.
The first question is whether the action shotdd have been dismissed because not brought by the attorney general, but by private counsel employed by the state treasurer. The solution of this question depends upon the construction given to the statutes which prescribe the respective duties of the attorney general and state treasurer, and the substance of these statutes will now be stated. The general provision prescribing the duties of the attorney general, sec. 163, Stats. (1898), provides, among other things, that it shall be his…
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