The United States, in Error v. The Heirs and Representatives of Joseph H. Hawkins, Deceased
Supreme Court of the United States
IN error to the district court of the United States, from the eastern district of Louisiana. This case was before the court at January term 1832, on a writ of error, to the district court of Louisiana, prosecuted by Nathaniel Cox, Nathaniel and James Dick, plaintiffs in error, v. the United States, 6 Peters’s Reports, 172. Nathaniel Cox, and John Dick, the father of Nathaniel and James Dick, were the sureties of Joseph H. Hawkins, in .his official bond to the United States,'…
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IN error to the district court of the United States, from the eastern district of Louisiana. This case was before the court at January term 1832, on a writ of error, to the district court of Louisiana, prosecuted by Nathaniel Cox, Nathaniel and James Dick, plaintiffs in error, v. the United States, 6 Peters’s Reports, 172. Nathaniel Cox, and John Dick, the father of Nathaniel and James Dick, were the sureties of Joseph H. Hawkins, in .his official bond to the United States,' as navy agent of the United States, at New Orleans. In the district court, a judgment was given in favor of the United…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wayne
On the 18th October, 1825, the United States instituted a suit in the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana, according to the practice of that state, upon a bond of Joseph H. Hawkins, as principal, ánd Nathaniel Cox and John Dick, as sureties in the penalty of twenty thousand dollars, with the condition that if Joseph H. Hawkins shall regularly account, when thereto required, for all public moneys received by him, from time to time, and for all public property committed to his care, with such person or persons, officer or officers of the government of the…
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