Jones v. Coker
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Madison County. Hon. E. G. Peyton,-Chancellor. J. E. Coker recovered a judgment before a justice of the peace against R. Y. Coker, who appealed to the Circuit Court, and on the fourth day of November, 1873, gave his appeal bond, with T. N. Jones and H. E. Glasscock as sureties. On the thirtieth day of September, 1875, the case was tried in the Circuit Court, and judgment rendered against R. Y. Coker and the sureties on his bond.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Madison County. Hon. E. G. Peyton,-Chancellor. J. E. Coker recovered a judgment before a justice of the peace against R. Y. Coker, who appealed to the Circuit Court, and on the fourth day of November, 1873, gave his appeal bond, with T. N. Jones and H. E. Glasscock as sureties. On the thirtieth day of September, 1875, the case was tried in the Circuit Court, and judgment rendered against R. Y. Coker and the sureties on his bond. Execution was issued on the judgment in the Circuit Court, and on the tenth day of March, 1876, T. N. Jones and H. E. Glasscock…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.
Sureties on an appeal bond, executed in an appeal from the judgment of a justice of the peace to the Circuit Court, were discharged in bankruptcy, after they executed the appeal bond and before the trial in the Circuit Court, which resulted in a recovery against the principal obligor who was the defendant in the Justice’s Court. A judgment was entered in the Circuit Court against the principal and his sureties jointly, and fieri facias issued on this judgment, and was levied on certain chattels of the sureties, who exhibited their bill in chancery to enjoin the *198execution on the ground that…
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