Commonwealth v. Reitzel
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the District Court of Lancaster county. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania against Philip Reitzel, co-obligor in a bond with Frederick Hambright and others. This was an action of debt upon the official bond of Frederick Ham-bright and others.
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ERROR to the District Court of Lancaster county. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania against Philip Reitzel, co-obligor in a bond with Frederick Hambright and others. This was an action of debt upon the official bond of Frederick Ham-bright and others. Frederick Hambright had been appointed collector of tolls upon the Columbia railroad at Lancaster in 1839, and every year thereafter until 1843. Each year he was appointed he gave a new bond with different sureties; and on the 19th April 1843, when he was appointed, Philip Reitzel and others became his sureties. On the 25th March 1844, the account…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
This action was instituted in the court below by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania against the defendant, Philip Reitzel, upon his bond as one of the sureties of Frederick Ham-bright, late collector of tolls at Lancaster,, to recover two several *111sums of money alleged to be due from him, according to a settlement made thereof by the Auditor General on the 25th day of March 1844; the first sum being $5859.41, received and due for motive power, and the second sum $4236.39, received for railroad tolls, forming an aggregate sum of $10,095.80.…
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