Arnott v. Friel

This was an action of debt on an appeal bond, brought to the St. Clair Circuit Court by Hugh Friel, against Anderson Arnott, and others, his sureties. The declaration sets out the bond in Tubo verba, to which the defendants pleaded three pleas; the first of which alleges the bond was executed by mistake, misapprehension and misdirection of the Circuit Court of St. Clair county in regard to the person against whom the judgment of that Court was in fact rendered in the action pending before it, wherein Friel was plaintiff and Jesse Arnott was defendant, and the defendants aver that no judgment…