Heilner ex rel. Freytag v. Bast
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Writ of error to the Common Pleas of Berks county. . This was an action of debt upon an insolvent bond, brought by Samuel Heihier, for the use of Freytag and Kampman, against Jacob Bast, John Wanner, and Samuel Fegelly. The bond, dated 1st July, 1825, was in the penalty of two thousand dollars, with the following condition annexed.
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Writ of error to the Common Pleas of Berks county. . This was an action of debt upon an insolvent bond, brought by Samuel Heihier, for the use of Freytag and Kampman, against Jacob Bast, John Wanner, and Samuel Fegelly. The bond, dated 1st July, 1825, was in the penalty of two thousand dollars, with the following condition annexed. “ Whereas the above bounden Jacob Bast, hath been arrested, and is now in arrest, at the suit of the said Samuel Heilner, for the use of Freytag and Kampman, for the sum of one thousand and three dollars and fifty-seven cents, besides costs; and the said Jacob…
1Opinion of the Court
*270The opinion of the court was delivered by
Rogers, J.
Jacob Bast, being in the actual custody of the sheriff .of Berks county, gave bond to the plaintiffs, at whose suit he was arrested, with the sureties required, and regularly approved of by a judge at his chamber, whereupon, in compliance with the act of the 28th March, 1820, he was discharged from arrest. The bond, which is in accordance with the act, 16 Serg. & Rawle, 48. Farmers Bank of Reading v. Boyer, has the following condition under written, that Jacob Bast will appear, &c. before the court of Common Pleas of Berks county, at the next…
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