Clark v. Selfridge

This is an action of debt on an appeal bond in the penalty of $1,500 given in the case of Wright v. Chandler, 180 Ill. App. 476, in which the condition was that the principal obligors duly prosecute their appeal with effect. To the declaration the defendants interposed several pleas, in the second of which they set up in bar of the action the foreclosure proceedings in the trial court, the appeal to this court and the final order of this court, and contend thereby that the appeal, in which the bond sued upon was given, was prosecuted with effect.

With their pleas the defendants filed an…