Beams v. Denham

Beams and Archer filed their bill in chancery in the Madison Circuit Court, setting forth, among other things, that Buckmaster, for the use of Denham, had commenced an action against Beams and Archer on a replevin bond ; that shortly before the term of the Court to which the writ in the action on the replevin bond, to wit, August term, 1838, was returnable, Beams, one of the complainants, and who was the principal in the bond, became sick and unable to attend the Court. That he sent an agent to Court to attend to his suit; that said agent called upon the attorney for the plaintiff in the suit…