Mattoon v. Pearce
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was an action of debt upon a replevin bond, in which, the forfeiture of the penalty having been confessed, the defendants to be heard in
1Opinion of the CourtParker, C. J.
■ The bond, in this case, was given to the plaintiff, who is sheriff of the county, to secure the return of certain goods, which had been attached by him on two writs in favor of David S. Eaton, against Proctor Pearce and others, and which were replevied by Abraham Pearce, the defendant in this action. The replevin was made in 1808, and the action was entered and proceeded in, until the term of this Court in April, 1810, when the said Abraham Pearce, plaintiff in replevin, became nonsuit, and judgment was entered for a return, and damages were assessed for the detention at $510.
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