People v. Manufacturers Casualty Insurance

This is an application by the surety for remission of a forfeiture.

Bail was posted in the sum of $1,000 on March 1, 1954, on behalf of defendant, Lucretia Blyther, charged with the misdemeanor of being a pickpocket.

Defendant appeared on March 2d, March 15th and March 25, 1954. On each occasion the case was adjourned. On the last adjourned date, April 8, 1954, the defendant failed to appear and her bail was forfeited. Thereafter on April 14, 1954, judgment was entered. (In the affidavit accompanying the moving papers defendant advises that she believed her case had been adjourned to April…