Cordray v. State

Citations

• 55 Tex. 140
• 1881 Tex. LEXIS 97

Syllabus

<p>1. Shebiff’s bond — Action.— One suit may be maintained on two official bonds given for two different years by a defaulting sheriff, the securities being identical on each; nor is it material that one of the bonds was made payable to the state of Texas, and the other to “ B. B. Hubbard, governor of the state of Texas, and his successors in office.”</p> <p>3. Same.—The liability of sureties on the official bond of a tax collector, which by its terms binds the principal and sureties jointly and severally for its payment, subject to the condition that the principal will faithfully perform all the duties required of him by law as such collector, is not limited by writing opposite the signature of each surety a specific amount, and causing the certificate of their acknowledgment to recite that they had each rendered himself liable for such specific amount.</p> <p>3. Interest—Tax collector.—In a suit against a defaulting tax collector, in the absence of evidence showing when his collections were made, or that he was in default before the end of the fiscal year, interest, under the provisions of the act of August 31, 1876 (Acts 15th Leg., 359), should be required of him on the amount for which he was in default, only, from the end of the fiscal year for which the collections were made.</p>