Stapleton v. Wilcox

WILLIAMS, Associate Justice.

In 1885 appellees recovered judgment against R. W. Crawford and W. F. Duer, in the District Court of Waller County, from which Crawford and Duer prosecuted an appeal to the Supreme Court, giving a supersedeas appeal bond, to which the name of William Stapleton, the present plaintiff in error, appeared as one of the sureties.

On March 1, 1887, the judgment of the District Court was affirmed, and the amount thereof adjudged against the sureties on the bond. Man date was sent down to the District Court, and an execution was issued on the 10th day of May, 1887, against…