People v. Jacob
California Supreme Court
People v. Jacob, 49 Cal. 540 (Cal. 1875)
McKinstry
People v. Jacob
Opinion of the Court
On the facts found by the referee, judgment should have been for the defendants.
The referee finds that at the death of Scott, late Treasurer, there was to be accounted for by him the sum of $7,544 75; that since his death there had been paid to his successor in office, by the administrator of his estate $4,943, and by locators of swamp lands, to whom he had given receipts, but who (at the time of his death) had not actually paid the amounts due upon their locations, the sum of $3,213 16.
Judgment and order reversed, and the District Court directed to enter a judgment for the defendants.
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- THE PEOPLE v. E. JACOB
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- Liability op County Tbbasubek.—If a County Treasurer receipts to persons who owe the State for land, without receiving the money, hut with an understanding that such persons will pay him the money when he requires it to make a settlement, and the Treasurer soon after dies, and such persons pay the money to his successor in office, who credits it to the account of the deceased, the Treasurer’s bondsman cannot be holden for the money, for the payment to the successor in office is a liquidation of the demand.