Farris v. Matthews

Opinion of the Court by

William Eogers Clay, Commissioner

Affirming.

J. D. Farris and I. W. Blair brought an action in the Knox Circuit Court against the Interstate Petroleum Company and others to recover on a promissory note in the sum of $500. An attachment was prayed for, issued and levied on certain property belonging to the defendants. A forthcoming bond was executed by the defendants, with John Gr. Matthews as surety, to the *456effect that the obligors were bound in double the value of the property, that the defendant should perform the judgment of the court in the action, or that the…