Remington v. Henry

Scire facias against bail for the stay of execution issued by a justice of the peace. Judgment against the defendant by default before the justice. Appeal to the Circuit Court. Judgment for the plaintiff.

The scire facias was issued on the 27th of April, 1840. It recites a judgment rendered by the justice against the original debtor on the 14th of November, 1839, and alleges that the *69defendant, on the 14th of November, 1840, entered himself on the justice’s docket as bail for the stay of execution on the judgment, interest, and costs, for 150 days, which period had, at the date of the seire…