Williams v. Claflin
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of tbe United States for tbe District of South Carolina. Motion to vacate tbe supersedeas, or for a new bond.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
delivered tbe opinion of the court.
In Jerome v. McCarter (21 Wall. 17), we said that if, after security on an appeal which operated as a supersedeas bad been accepted, tbe circumstances of tbe case, or of tbe parties, or of tbe sureties on tbe bond, bad changed, so that tbe security, which at tbe time it was taken was sufficient, did not continue to be so, we might, on proper application, so adjudge and order as justice should require. The present appellants are interested only in preserving their security for a debt of tbe railroad company amounting, when tbe decree was rendered, to about…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Jerome v. McCarterSupreme Court of the United States · 1874
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