Jones v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up by writ of error from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia. It was a suit brought by the United States upon , a postmaster’s bond against Walter F. Jones (the postmaster at Norfolk) in Virginia), and Thomas Ap Catesby Jones and Duncan Robertson, his sureties. Judgment went by default against the ppstmaster and Robertson.
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This case was brought up by writ of error from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia. It was a suit brought by the United States upon , a postmaster’s bond against Walter F. Jones (the postmaster at Norfolk) in Virginia), and Thomas Ap Catesby Jones and Duncan Robertson, his sureties. Judgment went by default against the ppstmaster and Robertson. The act of Congress upon which the defence rested was the following, viz.: — The act of the 3d Match, 1825,' (4 Statutes at'Large, 102,) is entitled “An act to reduce into one the several acts for establishing…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Daniel
The case in the Circpit Court was an action of debt, instituted to recover the amount of a default claimed by the United States of Walter F. Jones, ás postmaster of the Borough of Norfolk, in the State of Virginia. The said Walter F. Jones, having beén appointed postmaster of Norfolk, executed, on the 8th day of August, in the year 1836, his bond, with the plaintiff in error and one Duncan Robertson as his sureties, in the penalty of ten thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his office. In the year 1839, Walter F. Jones was removed from office, the United…
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