Whittemore v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Sangamon county; the Hon. Robert B. Shirley, Judge, presiding. This suit is an action of debt begun in the circuit court of Sangamon county on the bond of ex-State Treasurer Henry Wulff, to recover from plaintiff in error, Floyd K. Whittemore, one of the sureties on the official bond of said State Treasurer, the sum of $4295.88, which it is claimed said Henry Wulff, during his term of office, wrongfully and unlawfully drew out of the…
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Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Sangamon county; the Hon. Robert B. Shirley, Judge, presiding. This suit is an action of debt begun in the circuit court of Sangamon county on the bond of ex-State Treasurer Henry Wulff, to recover from plaintiff in error, Floyd K. Whittemore, one of the sureties on the official bond of said State Treasurer, the sum of $4295.88, which it is claimed said Henry Wulff, during his term of office, wrongfully and unlawfully drew out of the State treasury and appropriated and converted to his own use, in addition to his salary as fixed by law and in addition to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Farmer
It will be seen from the pleas above set out in substance, that the defenses sought to be made are, substantially, that the moneys sued for were not the moneys and property of the State; that said moneys came into the hands of Wulff as registered bond funds and hot as taxes and revenues raised, for and belonging to the people of the State, but that said moneys belonged to the various municipalities from which they had been collected; that Wulff had a lawful right to retain or pay to himself, out of said fund, the costs and expenses of its collection and disbursement; that by contemporaneous…
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