Tucker v. Bruce
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract on a recognizance entered into before W. W. Blackmar, master in chancery, on June 11, 1875, under the Gen. Sts. e. 124, § 10, by the defendant Bruce, as principal, and the defendant Joshua C. Willis, as surety, reciting the arrest of Bruce on an execution, bearing date June 11,1875, issued upon a judgment of the Police Court of the city of Chelsea, and conditioned that Bruce should, within thirty days from the day of his arrest, deliver himself up before some…
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Contract on a recognizance entered into before W. W. Blackmar, master in chancery, on June 11, 1875, under the Gen. Sts. e. 124, § 10, by the defendant Bruce, as principal, and the defendant Joshua C. Willis, as surety, reciting the arrest of Bruce on an execution, bearing date June 11,1875, issued upon a judgment of the Police Court of the city of Chelsea, and conditioned that Bruce should, within thirty days from the day of his arrest, deliver himself up before some magistrate authorized to act, giving notice of the time and place thereof in the manner provided by law, and appear at the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The notice in writing, left by the bail at the office of the plaintiffs’ attorney, by mentioning the party giving it as the person who had entered into the recognizance, and who had made the surrender, and particularly describing the debtor and the execution on which he was arrested, sufficiently showed that the notice was from the bail, although not subscribed. Judgment for the defendants.
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