Coombs v. Newlon

Debt by Coombs against Newlon and Mead on a penal bond.

The facts are these:—On the 25th of December, 1832, Newlon and Mead applied to a justice of the peace for a writ of ne exeat against the said Coombs; and in compliance with the statute on that subject filed the bond in question, conditioned as the law directs, that they would pay the costs that should accrue on said writ, &c., and that they would also pay all damages that Coombs might be entitled to, in case they had procured the issuing of said writ without cause.

On the penal part of this bond Coombs declared, without setting out the…