Browne v. Peters

This appeal was taken from a judgment in a summary process action awarding the plaintiff landlord possession of the premises. The defendant filed with her appeal a bond with surety which guaranteed payment for “all rents or for the reasonable value of use and occupancy of the premises that may accrue during pendency of the appeal.” Another appeal bond with an allegedly more financially responsible surety was filed on the date on which the plaintiff filed her motion to dismiss the appeal.

The only ground of that motion to dismiss which we need consider is the failure of either appeal bond to…