Hannum v. State

Suit by the State of Indiana against Eli Kessler, Joseph Breen, and the appellants, Hannum and Dewey.

The complaint states, that, on the 21st day of September, 1869, Kessler, Breen, and the appellants executed their certain writing obligatory to the State of Indiana, a copy of which was filed with the complaint, by which they ackhowl*33edged themselves to be indebted to the State in the sum of six hundred dollars, on the following conditions: That if the said Kessler and Breen should be and appear before one David P. Helser, a justice of the peace in and for said county, at his office in Delphi,…