State v. McFetridge
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Dane County. This action is upon the official bond of the defendant Edward O. McFetridge, as state treasurer, during the term commencing on the first Monday in January, 1885, and ending on the first Monday in January, 1887, to which office he was duly elected at the general election in November, 1884. It is brought against him and all the surviving sureties in such bond, eleven in number.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Dane County. This action is upon the official bond of the defendant Edward O. McFetridge, as state treasurer, during the term commencing on the first Monday in January, 1885, and ending on the first Monday in January, 1887, to which office he was duly elected at the general election in November, 1884. It is brought against him and all the surviving sureties in such bond, eleven in number. Three of the sureties deceased before the commencement of the action. The bond is in the penal sum of $500,000, and the condition thereof (omitting formal recitals) is as…
1OpinionWinslow, J.
Motions for rehearing are made in these cases upon the ground that interest should not have been allowed upon the interest moneys received by the treasurers from the date of the expiration of their respective terms of office, but only from the time of the commencement of these actions, or, at most, from the time when demand was made. The ground is taken that these demands *531of the state were in doubt and unliquidated, and consequently did not bear interest, and reliance is placed upon Marsh v. Fraser, 31 Wis. 149, and Shipman v. State, 44 Wis. 458. Both of the cases cited were for the recovery…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Shipman v. StateWisconsin Supreme Court · 1878
- Supervisors of Kewaunee County v. KnipferWisconsin Supreme Court · 1875
- Board of Supervisors of Monroe Co. v. . ClarkNew York Court of Appeals · 1883
- Board of Supervisors v. PabstWisconsin Supreme Court · 1888
- Joint School District No. One v. LyfordWisconsin Supreme Court · 1871
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