Williams v. Shelbourne
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 94 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL FROM BALLARD CIRCUIT COURT- 1. The appellants knew at the time they accepted the money' in payment of the bond that the Governor had remitted the same, and in receiving the same they practiced a fraud upon the-appellant and should be made to account for the same.
1Opinion of the Court
CP11EF JUSTICE LEWIS
delivered the opinion of thf, court.
Appellants’ sureties brought this action to recover back from appellees, Commonwealth's attorney, county 'attorney and clerk of the circuit court, $170 paid in satisfaction of a judgment on a forfeited bail bond.
It is stated substantially in the petition, to Which a general demurrer was sustained, that the governor subsequent to the term of court at which the bail bond in question was *580forfeited, but on January 1, 1804, one day before the judgment was at the next term rendered, remitted the forfeiture; though the executive document was…
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