McCombs v. Johnson

An appeal from the judgment of a justice of the peace was dismissed in this case on the ground that it had not been taken in due season, and also because no' return had ever been made to it.

The appeal appears to have been duly claimed on the fourth day after judgment was rendered, and a bond was tendered on that day. The justice makes affidavit that he ■ required another surety to the bond before, he would approve it, and that the appellant took it away to procure a surety, and did not return it until the sixth day after judgment;. which would have been too late. The bond was then approved,…