County Court of Pope County ex rel. Deen v. Shepard

Citations

• 67 Ill. 585

Syllabus

<p>Official bond—whether to county court—names rejected as surplusage. Where a constable’s bond was made payable to “John M. Boicourt, county judge of Pope county, and to Andrew J. Disk and B. W. Holloway, associate justices of said court, and to their successors in office, for the use of,” etc., it was held, that the same was payable to the “county court” of the county, the names being regarded as surplusage, and therefore, that an action thereon was properly brought in the name of “the county court of Pope county.”</p>