City of Chicago v. Summit Fidelity & Surety Co.

On Rehearing

This is an appeal by a surety on a forfeited bail bond from a judgment entered against it, as surety, in a civil common law action. The principal question is whether statutory scire facias proceedings were required to be filed on the bond forfeiture in order to obtain a money judgment.

Defendant, a professional bail bondsman, was surety on a bail bond given on July 10, 1959, in Municipal Court of Chicago quasi-criminal case No. 59 MC 149134, for the appearance of Mary Lee Trimble, who had been arrested on July 9, 1959. The “quasi-criminal complaint” charged that she “did resist a…