United States ex rel. Smith v. Stewart

MARTIN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District in favor of the appellee in an action brought upon a certain ne exeat bond upon which the appellee was sued as surety.

It appears that on March 23, 1916, the relator, Margaret C. Smith, brought suit in the lower court against her husband, Percy G. Smith, for divorce and alimony, and that at the commencement of the suit a writ of ne exeat was issued against the husband, with security noted in the sum of $2,000. The husband was taken into custody under the writ, whereupon he, as principal, together with…