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SWEENEY v. LOMME

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89 U.S. 208 (1874)

22 Wall. 208

22 L.Ed. 727

SWEENEY ET AL., v. LOMME.

Supreme Court of United States.

December 21, 1874.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J. Hubley Ashton, for the plaintiffs in error, and Mr. Robert Leech, contra.

Mr. Justice MILLER delivered the opinion of the court.

1. The first error assigned and mainly relied on is that the bond on which the suit is brought having been given to the sheriff, this action cannot be maintained by Lomme, the party for whose benefit it was really given.

This question has been decided differently by different State courts under precisely the same code of practice.

In several of these it...

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