Granger v. Hayden

This is debt on a liquor dealer’s bond for $1,000, given September 2, a. d. 1889, by the defendants to Benjamin Tripp, city treasurer of the city of Providence, “ to be paid to said Benjamin Tripp, city treasurer as aforesaid, and his successors in said office.” The plaintiff sues as city treasurer of the city of Providence, and the successor in said office of Benjamin Tripp, late treasurer of said city, so describing himself in the declaration. The defendants demur to the declarartion, and contend, in support of the demurrer, that the plaintiff cannot, in his said capacity as successor in…