Hutchen v. Niblo

Niblo instituted an action against Hutchen and Berry on an obligation, the condition of which, after reciting a judgment rendered by a justice of the peace, and an execution upon it issued by him, on which Hutchen had been imprisoned in the jail of Franklin county, stipulated “that he should from and after the execution of said obligation, continue a true prisoner in the custody of the jailor, or keeper of .the prison of the county aforesaid, and within the limits of the jail bounds, without attempting any manner of escape until discharged by law.” The breach assigned is, “that Hutchen did…