United States v. Gayle

Siwonton, ,J.

The plaintiff sues upon a judgment obtained by default against the defendant in this court, entered 3d August, 1872, in the sum oi' $532.58, and offers the record in evidence. The defendant in her answer denies that she was ever served with the writ in the original case, or that she had any notice whatever of the suit. She also avers that the cause of action was the bond of her husband as postmaster, dated in 1867, that her name appears as his surety, but that she was then a married woman, under disability as such; and that the bond was void. The record in evidence has indorsed…