29 N.C. 198 | N.C. | 1847
The office of constable endures but for one year, and the bond given for the faithful discharge of his duties binds his sureties only for acts done or omitted to be done during that time. If at the expiration of the official year he is reappointed, it is a new and distinct appointment, as much so, for the purpose of our present investigation, as if a different person were chosen. The different sureties, or the sureties on the different bonds, are answerable only for the year to which their bond extends, and at the expiration of each official year the (200) official bond given for that year ceases to have any obligatory force for breaches committed thereafter. Thus in Keck v. Coble,
PER CURIAM. Venire de novo.
Cited: Hubbard v. Wall,