City of Healdsburg v. Mulligan

Citations

• 113 Cal. 205
• 45 P. 337
• 1896 Cal. LEXIS 767

Syllabus

<p>Official Bond of Treasurer—Common-law Liability—Action Against Sureties—Defense—Bailment—Bobbery.—The official bond o£ a city-treasurer, conditioned that he shall faithfully perform the duties of his office required by law, which requires him to safely keep all moneys coming into his hands, adds nothing to his common-law liability, as a bailee for hire of the money intrusted to his care, and it is a defense to an action against the sureties on the bond, that the moneys for the loss of which the action was brought were taken from his possession by robbers, by irresistible force and violence.</p>