Phillips v. Hawkins

The appellants, Lambeth and Thompson, are sought to be made liable as sureties of the defendant Hawkins on a bail bond by them subscribed, under the first section of an act of the legislature, entitled “ an act supplementary to an act entitled an act to abolish imprisonment for debt,” approved March, 28th, 1840.

On the motion of the plaintiff’s counsel who obtained a rule to that effect in the court below, and on the production of the sheriff’s *219return, of “ no property found” on the writ oí fieri facias which had been issued against the defendant, the appellants were condemned to pay the sum…