United States v. Warfield
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore. The defendant in error Solomon Davies Warfield was appointed Postmaster by President Cleveland on May 9, 1891, and reappointed by President McKinley on May 6, 1899. lie gave two bonds. The first was dated May 16, 1894, with the Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland and Edwin Warfield as sureties. The second was dated March 10. 1899, with the Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore. The defendant in error Solomon Davies Warfield was appointed Postmaster by President Cleveland on May 9, 1891, and reappointed by President McKinley on May 6, 1899. lie gave two bonds. The first was dated May 16, 1894, with the Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland and Edwin Warfield as sureties. The second was dated March 10. 1899, with the Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland. Edwin Warfield, and TIonry A. Parr, as sureties. The suit below was on Ihe bonds thus executed. Two suits were…
1Opinion of the CourtPritchard, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). This case conies before us on a writ of error to the court below. The plaintiff below instituted an action to recover a certain sum claimed to be due by the defendant below S. Davies Warfield on account of certain money placed in his hands as postmaster at Baltimore, and which it is alleged was paid to one John W. Pettit .without warrant of law.
It appears that the vouchers taken by the defendant in error at the time the disbursements were made by him were signed by the clerk, and that in pursuance of the same the money was actually paid to the clerk in each…
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