Leavitt v. Lyons
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract on a bond executed by Abner Woodward as principal, and Samuel J. Lyons as surety, on a petition for review of a judgment of the Superior Court, recovered by the present plaintiff at March term 1870, in an action against him by Woodward. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the defendants, to this court, on appeal, on an agreed statement of facts, the substance of which appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtEndicott, J.
The plaintiff recovered a judgment for costs in an action brought in the Superior Court by Woodward, one of the defendants. After the rendition of the judgment, Woodward brought in this court a petition for review, and also for a supersedeas. Upon this petition it was ordered that a notice issue, and “ also that, upon filing a bond for the payment of the amount of the judgment for costs rendered in said case, if said judg ment shall not be reversed, execution therefor be stayed until the determination hereof, such bond to be satisfactory to the clerks *471and his approval indorsed thereon.”…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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