Blair v. Reading

This. action in form is in debt, and was brought on a supersedeas bond. Previous litigation between the plaintiffs in this suit and the principal defendant, resulted in the former obtaining a decree against the latter for several'sums of money, amounting in the aggregate to a considerable sum. That decree defendant desired to have reviewed in the Supreme Court, and for that purpose made an application to a justice of the Supreme Court, at his chambers, in vacation, for a supersedeas, that the proceedings against him might be stayed until the determination of the case on the writ of error he…