Jones v. Smith
Supreme Court of Georgia
Bond. Contracts. Evidence. Governor. Constitutional law. Auditor. Practice in the- Superior Court. New trial. Before Judge Hillyer. Fulton Superior Court. October Term, 1879. The facts material to the questions passed upon by the court are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Pottle, Judge.
This case was a suit on a bond of John Jones, made and executed on the 13th day of January, 1873, with John T. Grant and O. A. Nutting as securities, payable to James M. Smith, governor, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office as treasurer of the state, to which office, as the bond recites, he had been elected on the 11th day of January, 1873, for four years from and after said day of election.
The declaration alleged that the treasurer had broken his obligation in many particulars. As some of these allegations have been disposed of upon the trial…
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