60 Ga. 156 | Ga. | 1878
This was an action brought in the name of the United
The collector’s bond sued on by the plaintiff in this case is a contract for the indemnity of the United States alone, and not for the indemnity of private persons who may be injured'by the wrongs or torts of the collector or his deputies. The plaintiff’s suit is upon a contract, and the injury complained of as a breach of that contract, is in the nature of a tort committed on the plaintiff’s property by one of the collector’s deputies, for which the collector and his securities are not liable on his bond required by the 3113 section of the revised statutes of the United States, although he might be proceeded against under the 3169th section. In our judgment the court erred in overruling the defendant’s demurrer to the plaintiff’s declaration.
Let the judgment of the court below be reversed.