Humphrey v. Taggart

This was an action of debt on a replevin bond, brought by Taggart, the defendant in error, against the plaintiffs in error. The defendants below pleaded four special pleas, to each of .which a demurrer was sustained, and judgment was rendered for the plaintiff. The defendants below have brought the record here.

The only point made in the brief of counsel for the plaintiffs in error is, that the fifth plea was good. But it was clearly bad. The first and second counts of the declaration assigned as breaches of the bond that the maker “ did not prosecute his suit to effect and without delay.”…