McCan v. E. Conery & Son

This case is brought to this court on a writ of error to the district court taken by the defendants, who were condemned in that court in the sum of ¡¡>2,500, with interest and costs. The petition was filed June 28, 1880, the plaintiff, McCan, averring that he qualified as assignee in bankruptcy of one" Montgomery on the fifth of April, 1876. The cause of action is stated to be against the defendants, Conery & Son, as sureties on the charter of the steamboat Seminole, from Montgomery to one Mitchell and others, in 1875, the cause of action accruing to Montgomery in June of that year, and…