Township of Richland v. Cliff

This is an action on a township treasurer’s bond in the penal sum of $4,000. The suit was originally instituted injustice’s court. Plaintiff recovered in both the justice’s court and at the circuit. Defendants bring error. The summons does not appear in the record, but the declaration complains of the defendants “in a plea that they render to the said plaintiff the sum of three hundred dollars, which they owe to and unlawfully detain from the said plaintiff,” — the usual form of commencement of a declaration in debt. 2 Stev. Mich. Prac. p. 515. The declaration then recites the bond, assigns a…