State v. Craig
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Lee Circuit Court. Action upon a bond executed to the State of Iowa by the defendant, Seth H. Craig, as warden of “the penitentiary, located at Fort Madison. The other defendants, Mourton Case, A. C. Boberts, Wm. G. Kent, Joseph Edwards, J. F. Edwards, H. Nelle, Thomas Smith, F. B. Kent, James Bullard, A. L. Courtwright and Wm. G. Albright, signed the bond as sureties.
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Appeal from Lee Circuit Court. Action upon a bond executed to the State of Iowa by the defendant, Seth H. Craig, as warden of “the penitentiary, located at Fort Madison. The other defendants, Mourton Case, A. C. Boberts, Wm. G. Kent, Joseph Edwards, J. F. Edwards, H. Nelle, Thomas Smith, F. B. Kent, James Bullard, A. L. Courtwright and Wm. G. Albright, signed the bond as sureties. Judgment was rendered against Craig for the sum of $8,000, which judgment in still in force and unpaid. The sureties defended upon the ground that .after their signatures were obtained to the bond, it was materially…
1Opinion of the CourtAdams, J.
1. PRACTICE: transfer to equity docket. I. The appellant contends that the court erred in transferring the case to the equity docket. But it does not appear that the appellant demanded a jury trial ■ , * ... . ,, , T, ., or excepted to the ruling of the court, it is true c ... the appellant states m its abstract that it excepted, but no record entry is set out shofving such exception; and' the appellees, by an amended abstract, set out a copy of the entry containing the ruling upon the motion which does not show any exception taken. The correctness of the amended abstract is not denied and…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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