Cottonbelt Insurance v. State

DOWNEY, Judge.

Appellants seek review of an order denying their motion to vacate a final judgment declaring forfeiture of an appearance bond.

It appears that appellant Cottonbelt Insurance Company (through its agent, appellant Crews Bonding Agency of Jacksonville, Florida) wrote a bond to assure the appearance in the Circuit Court of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit in and for Palm Beach County, on August 20, 1979, of Douglas Sweet, a defendant in a criminal case pending in that court. Through Crews Cotton-belt had also written a bond to assure *837Sweet’s appearance on a criminal charge in Duval…