Dale v. Radcliffe & Cutter

By the Court, Clerke, J.

The defendants were arrested on Saturday the 14th June, 1856, under a judge’s order; and at 10 o’clock in the evening of that day, their attorney called on the attorneys of the plaintiff, and proposed that they should then accept bail. After considerable hesitation they consented, on the condition that the proposed bail should be forthwith examined by them. The bail were, accordingly, examined as to their qualifications; their depositions were written down and signed, and then delivered to the defendants’ attorney to be attested in the usual manner, before a…