Looney v. . Hughes

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] It is true, as claimed by the plaintiff's counsel, that no express statutory provision was necessary to enable supervisors to sue upon bonds directed to be given to them by the collectors of towns, because, as was said by BRONSON, J., in Supervisor ofGalway v. Stimson (4 Hill, 136), as a general rule, "all public officers, though not expressly authorized by statute, have a capacity to sue commensurate with their public trusts and duties." It does not, however,…