United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Montana. ' The United States brought an action in the court below against the plaintiff in error, as surety upon the official bond of Morris L. Bri'dgeman, Indian agent of the Ft. Belknap Indian Agency.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Montana. ' The United States brought an action in the court below against the plaintiff in error, as surety upon the official bond of Morris L. Bri'dgeman, Indian agent of the Ft. Belknap Indian Agency. The condition of the bond was that “if the said principal shall at all times during his holding and remaining in Office, carefully discharge the duties thereof and faithfully disburse all public moneys, and honestly account, without fraud or delay, for the same and for all public funds, including the funds designated in…
1Opinion of the CourtGilbert, Circuit Judge
The undertaking of the surety was that the principal should at all times "honestly account without fraud or delay” for all public moneys and property coming into his hands as such agent. Under section 8 of the act of July 4, 1884 (23 Stat. 97, c. 180), the presentatioh of vouchers, accounts, and claims, containing material misrepresentations *552of fact in regard to the amounts due and paid, was not an accounting. The statute vested the accounting officers with no discretion as to such vouchers. It made it their plain duty to reject them. The law as to accounting, not having been complied with,…
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