Gonsalves v. Brito

*255Opinion of the Court, by

Dole, J.

A verdict was rendered against the defendants in an action for publishing a libel, at the last October Term of this Court, for three thousand dollars damages, to which they excepted, and filed a motion for a new trial, upon several grounds. A bond to the plaintiff was filed with this motion, in the 'sum of two hundred dollars, conditioned upon the payment of costs further to accrue, and the non-removal and disposition to the detriment of the plaintiff of property held by the defendants liable to execution under the judgment upon such verdict.

The motion for a…