Morbeck v. State ex rel. Jackson Township

— Suit on the official bond of Morbeck, as township trustee, for failing to pay over to his successor moneys in his hands belonging to the relator.

The defendants answered that the identical money received by Morbeck, as trustee, in the complaint mentioned, was, immediately after the receipt thereof, and in the package in which the same was received, placed by him for safe keeping in a safe, where the same remained until the 14th of October, 1863; that the safe was, during all the time the money remained therein, under the immediate control and in the possession of Morbeck, in a store-room,…