People v. Pacific Surety Co.

This is an action for damages against the sureties on a constable’s bond for a breach of its condition that the constable “shall well and faithfully discharge the duties” of his office. There had been a previous judgment therefor by plaintiff against the constable. The court sustained a general demurrer to the complaint, and dismissed the action. A number of questions, some of substantive law,. *274others relating to matters of practice, are argued, whose determination is not necessary to a decision of the case. We, therefore, express no opinion concerning them. If, for our present purpose, it be…