State v. Churchill
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Pulaski Chancery Court. Hon. D. W. Carroll, Chancellor. H. G. Bunn, Special Judge. STATEMENT. The principal defendant in this cause, Thomas J. Churchill, was elected treasurer of the state, at the general election held in October, 1874, and executed his official bond, with A. H. Garland, R. C. Newton, Gordon N. Peay, John D. Adams, S. ~W. Williams, Thomas Fletcher, Elisha.
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APPEAL from Pulaski Chancery Court. Hon. D. W. Carroll, Chancellor. H. G. Bunn, Special Judge. STATEMENT. The principal defendant in this cause, Thomas J. Churchill, was elected treasurer of the state, at the general election held in October, 1874, and executed his official bond, with A. H. Garland, R. C. Newton, Gordon N. Peay, John D. Adams, S. ~W. Williams, Thomas Fletcher, Elisha. Baxter, James A. Martin, W. I). Blocher, W. W. Wilshire, B. Hempstead, Will J. Murphy, Ben S. Johnson, R. A. Little, Zeb Ward, Thomas W. Newton, Thomas D. Radcliffe, W. W. Adams, H. L. Fletcher, A. Mills and R.…
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION.
The statement of account by the special master is so full and complete, so accurate in detail, so intelligible in arrangement, and so satisfactory in every respect, that, except where questions of law arise to affect his conclusion, we are quite agreed with the learned chancellor, and shall not interfere with his finding of facts in confirmation of the report.
At the threshold we are met by the defendants’ demur-1. . . rer in the nature of a plea to the jurisdiction of the court below. Their contention is that it is an unheard of thing; that a suit for breaches of an official bond is…
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