Clark v. Douglass
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
October 19th 1869. Before Thompson, C. J., Read, Agnew, Sharswood and Williams, JJ. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Uric county: Of October and November Term 1869, No. 6. This was a feigned issue ordered August 30th 1867, between Clark and Metcalf, Warren D. Kellogg and William J. Sterrett, plaintiffs, and John W. Douglass, defendant.
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October 19th 1869. Before Thompson, C. J., Read, Agnew, Sharswood and Williams, JJ. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Uric county: Of October and November Term 1869, No. 6. This was a feigned issue ordered August 30th 1867, between Clark and Metcalf, Warren D. Kellogg and William J. Sterrett, plaintiffs, and John W. Douglass, defendant. The circumstances under which the issue was ordered are as follows: On the 30th of August 1865, Julius Degmier executed a bond with warrant of attorney to John W. Douglass in the sum of $15,000, the condition being “that whereas the said Julius Degmier is…
1Opinion of the Court
The' opinion of the court was delivered,
by Sharswood, J.
All the assignments of error may be considered together, as they rest upon the same principle.
*414Julius Degmier was a deputy collector of Federal internal revenue for the Nineteenth Collection District of this state, appointed by John W. Douglass, the principal collector. It was found that he had embezzled a considerable sum of money, for which the principal was responsible to the government. He and his wife executed a mortgage of her estate in due form in the sum of $15,000, to secure Douglass from this liability. The'amount of the…
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