United States v. Morgan
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana. It was a suit brought upon a collector’s bond against Thomas Gibbes Morgan, the principal, and Thomas W. Chinn, Micajah Courtney, Josiah Barker, and John Davenport, sureties. The bond was executed on the 14th of.
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This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana. It was a suit brought upon a collector’s bond against Thomas Gibbes Morgan, the principal, and Thomas W. Chinn, Micajah Courtney, Josiah Barker, and John Davenport, sureties. The bond was executed on the 14th of. December, 1841, and recited that Morgan had been appointed collector of the customs for' the district of Mississippi, in the State of Louisiana, on the 25th of June, 1841. It was in the usual form, with a. condition that Morgan “ has truly and faithfully executed and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodbury
This was an action on an official bond, given to secure the faithful performance of duty by one of the defendants, as collector of the port of New Orleans.
His appointment took place in June, 1841, and the bond was dated in December of the same year, and the condition was averred to have been broken in 1843 by not paying over large sums .of money collected foij’ the United States, and by not making seasonable returns of his accounts.
The. breaches were denied, and at the trial it would seem that evidence was given in relation to them, and the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs for $…
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