Beers v. Haughton
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Ohio
[At law. Action of debt by Joseph D. Beers, William L. Booth, and Isaac R. St. John against Richard Haughton on the recognizance of special bail. Plaintiffs demur to a plea of defendant. Subsequently affirmed by the supreme court in Beers v. Haughton, 9 Pet. (34 U. S.) 329.]
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF
THE COURT.
An action was brought by the plaintiffs in 1830, against Joseph Harris and Cornelius V. Hams, and judgment for 2818 dollars and costs, was entered at December term. In this suit the defendant Haughton became special bail, and bound himself that the Harris’s, should a judgment be recovered against them, should pay the judgment, or render themselves to the marshal. A capias ad satisfaciendum was issued upon the judgment in October, 1S31, to the marshal, which he returned that the defendants were not to be found. At the same term this court adopted a rule “that if a defendant…
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