H. Mueller Manufacturing Co. v. Boland

Appellee instituted suit against appellant before a justice of the peace in Macon county and recovered a judgment for the sum of $53.50. Appellant undertook to perfect an appeal from such judgment to the circuit court of said county but in executing the appeal bond he failed to sign the same himself, although it was signed by two sureties and was in regular form. When the case was called for trial in the circuit court and after a jury had been partially examined, on the motion of appellee, the appeal was dismissed for want of an appeal bond and a cross motion for leave to file an amended bond…