Bottom v. Caldwell's Trustee
Bottom v. Caldwell's Trustee
Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court by
The statute does not expressly require the bond to be executed to the superintendent, but only to be payable to him. The bond to the commonwealth for securing payment to the person entitled to receive it is virtually a bond to that person; and is therefore a good statutory bond in substance and effect.
But, if technically not good as a statutory obligation, still, being given to the commonwealth for fulfilling the prescribed trust and executed voluntarily, it is enforcible as a good common law bond.
And, although the petition did not explicitly aver an order by the county court, to pay to the plaintiff, yet, by law, he was
Wherefore the judgment is affirmed.
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