Covert v. Shirk

This is an action on an appeal bond, by Isaac N. Shirk and John Emmert, against Nicholas Howard, John S. Howard, John A. Maddux, Cornelius A. Covert and Alexander Hindman.

The complaint alleges, that the said Shirk and Emmert recovered a judgment against the said Nicholas and John S. Howard, before a justice of the peace; that the Howards appealed to the court below, and, together with the said John A. Maddux, Cornelius *265A. Covert and Alexander Hindman, as their sureties, executed an appeal bond, with the approval of said justice, conditioned in the usual form for the prosecution of their…