Inhabitants of Richmond v. Toothaker
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. Debt on the official bond of Samuel Brown, as collector of the town of Richmond tor the municipal year of. 1872. The bond was duly executed by Brown as principal and by these defendants as his sureties.
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On report. Debt on the official bond of Samuel Brown, as collector of the town of Richmond tor the municipal year of. 1872. The bond was duly executed by Brown as principal and by these defendants as his sureties. It stipulated that they “ are holden and stand firmly bound and obliged unto the inhabitants of said town of Richmond in the sum of twenty-four thousand dollars to be paid to the said inhabitants, to the which payment, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators firmly by these presents.” The material part of the declaration was as follows:…
1Opinion of the CourtVirgin, J.
Debt against the sureties on a town collector’s bond, executed jointly, by Samuel Drown as principal, and these defendants as sureties.
The plaintiffs set out a joint, and not a joint and several, bond, averring, with proper allegations of time and venue, that the defendants, “ together with one Samuel Brown,” by a certain writing obligatory, made, sealed and delivered to the plaintiffs “ as the deed of the said Hagar, Toothaker and Brown, and here in court to be produced, acknowledged themselves to be bound to the plaintiffs in the sum of $24,000, to be paid to them on demand.”
The defendants…
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