Talk:United States v. Walker (109 U.S. 258)/Opinion of the Court
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| Edition: | United States v. Walker (109 U.S. 258), , with Frederick P Sawyer and the defendant in error, David Walker, sureties It was in a penalty of $120,000, was payable to the United States, and was subject to the condition that the said Ames and Hazlett should well and truly perform the office of administrators of Horatio Ames, deceased, and discharge the duties of them required as such without any injury to any person interested in the faithful performance of said office Hazlett died at a date not given, and after his death and until January 9, 1875, Charlotte L Ames continued to be sole administratrix, and on the day last named she was removed from said office by order of a justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, and on the same day Nathaniel Wilson was appointed administrator de bonis non On January 22, 1876, Charlotte L Ames, in the settlement of her account as administratrix, was directed by the decree of a justice of said supreme court, holding a special term for the transaction of orphans' court business, to pay over to said Nathaniel Wilson, administrator de bonis non of the estate of Horatio Ames, deceased, on or before February 8, 1876, the sum of $34,87675 She failing to pay this sum or any part of it, Wilson, administrator de bonis non, on April 12, 1876, brought this suit in the name of the United States for his use, on the bond above mentioned, against Charlotte L Ames, David Walker, and the administrators of the estate of Frederick P Sawyer, who, on August 31, 1875, had departed this life The suit was afterwards discontinued as to Charlotte L Ames and the administrators of Sawyer, and was prosecuted against David Walker alone . |
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