Livingston v. Browder

HOLMES, Judge.

This is an appeal by the appellant, surety on an appearance bond, from a $2,500 judgment rendered against him for trespass. Appellant’s dispositive assignment of error is that the court wrongfully charged the jury as to the rights of a bail bondsman to pursue and arrest his principal in the house of a third person.

The pertinent portion of the court’s charge is as follows:

“Now as I said just now, as far as the law is concerned, Mr. Livingston, if he had a certified copy of that bond there that night and that is one of the points you have to determine here' — if he had a certified…