Scott v. Hardaway
Supreme Court of Virginia
ON the 17th of August, 1801, John Anderson, with Stith jf/ardaway and John Meanly, his securities, executed their bond to James Monroe, governor of this state, in the sum of four thousand dollars, conditioned to be void, if the said John Anderson should perform his duty as an inspector of . tobacco, at Barksdale’s warehouse, according to the direclions of the act of the general assembly for reducing into one the several acts for the inspection of tobacco.
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ON the 17th of August, 1801, John Anderson, with Stith jf/ardaway and John Meanly, his securities, executed their bond to James Monroe, governor of this state, in the sum of four thousand dollars, conditioned to be void, if the said John Anderson should perform his duty as an inspector of . tobacco, at Barksdale’s warehouse, according to the direclions of the act of the general assembly for reducing into one the several acts for the inspection of tobacco. On this bond a suit was brought in the county court of Dinwiddie, tor the benefit and at the relation of William Scott, who was…
1Opinion of the Court
the president pronounced the court’s opinion, that the action by one inspector against another, on the official bond of the latter, may well be maintained, and, consequently, that the demurrer was properly overruled by the County Court; but,that the record was defective in this, that the verdict of the jury assessing damages, on which the judgment was founded, did not appear therein ; and that the judgment of the County Court was erroneous in not attaching the recovery to future injuries.
Both judgments reversed, and new trial directed.
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