Etheridge v. . Vernoy

The action was brought by the plaintiffs as assignees of a penal bond of the defendant given to one Lewis T. Bond, to recover the residue of the moneys due thereon and for foreclosure of a mortgage executed at the same time, to secure the payment of the bond. The bond was in these words:

"Know all men, by these presents, that I, Milford Vernoy, of the town of Rochester, county of Ulster and State of New York, (714) am held firmly bound unto Lewis T. Bond, of the county of Bertie and State of North Carolina, in the sum of eighteen thousand dollars, to be paid to the said Lewis T. Bond, or to…