Joseph Rucker Lamar

“ The Surety Company insists, however, that those cases relate to suits on bonds intended to secure the performance of a Federal duty by Federal officers, and are not applicable to a case like this, where the suit is on a bond given to supersede a judgment which did not arise out of the laws of the United States, but was a mere evidence of a liability which arose at common law and became a security therefor. ”

“ If there was room for discussion, the matter is concluded by Bock v. Perkins, 139 U.S. 628, 35 L. ed. 314, 11 Sup. Ct. Rep. 677, and Sonnentheil v. Christian Moerlein Brewing Co. 172 U.S. 401, 43 L. ed. ”