United States v. Wood
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York
[Error to the district court of the United States for the Northern district of New York.] This was an action against the sureties on the official bond of one Scholefield, an assistant paymaster in the army, brought in the district court. At the trial, there was a verdict for the defendants [David S. Wood and others] and the United States brought the ease into this court by a writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
WALLACE. District Judge
(after disposing of sundry exceptions). The remaining exceptions in the case involve the question, whether it was error to permit the defendants to give evidence of Scholefield’s general conduct in the discharge of his official duties, and of his mode of life and pecuniary circumstances. It is not surprising that the peculiar hardship of the position of the defendants upon the trial induced the learned judge who presided to give them the benefit of any doubts that might arise upon questions of evidence. Scholefield died in 1S69, and it appeared inferentially that he was…
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