Butler v. Parker

Suit upon an appeal-bond. Demurrer to the complaint sustained, and final judgment for the defendant.

The complaint alleges “that on the 3d day of August, 1846, the plaintiff, having before that time received an award against the Whitewater Valley Canal Company, to-wit, on the 2d of July, 1846, for 575 dollars damages, occasioned by the construction, &c., from which said company had appealed, &c., made his bond,” &c., a copy of which is set out.

The bond is dated the 3d of August, and recites that the company is “about to appeal, &c., from a certain award lately rendered in the office of the…