Pickering v. Fisk
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an action on a penal bond, purporting to have been executed in the state of New-Hampshire, by the defendant, as surety for one Tarleton, and conditioned for the due execution by Tarleton of the office of sheriff of the county of Grafton in that state.
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This was an action on a penal bond, purporting to have been executed in the state of New-Hampshire, by the defendant, as surety for one Tarleton, and conditioned for the due execution by Tarleton of the office of sheriff of the county of Grafton in that state. The declaration was as follows:— “ To answer unto William Pickering, of, &c., treasurer of the state of New-Hampshire, successor in the office of treasurer of said state of New-Hampshire of Nathaniel Gilman, Esq. of Exeter, in the county of Rockingham in said state, late treasurer of said state, in a plea that to the said William…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was pronounced by
Phelps, J.
— It is utterly impossible, from the very imj perfect manner in which this case is presented by the bill of exceptions, to determine what view was taken of the case by the court below, or what questions of law, if any, were decided. All that can be gathered from the case as certified is, that upon the exhibition, by the plaintiff, of the record of a recovery by Moore against Tarleton, in the state of New-Hampshire, for the default in question, and in view of the pleadings the court rendered judgment for the defendant.
In the absence then of…
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