Pearson v. Bunker

This action was brought originally before a justice of the peace on an appeal bond to the Circuit Court in a replevin suit. The defendant in the replevin suit was defeated in the Circuit Court, and a return of the property awarded.

The property was afterward returned and the defendant in the replevin case then brought suit on the replevin bond before a justice of the peace in the name of the constable to whom it had been given, for his use, and in that suit recovered a judgment in debt for the penalty of the bond, $250, and $57 damages, which damages did not include appellee’s costs in Justice…