Thompson v. Lowell Machine Shop

This is a writ of scire facias commenced in the police court of Lowell, against the defendants, on a judgment recovered in that court, against John Brooks as principal, and the defendants as his trustees.

In the original suit, the defendants appeared and answered, and by their answer charged themselves as the debtors of Brooks, in a sum not precisely stated, but about $20. By the return of the execution, it appears' that they paid thereon $11. And now on this scire facias, the defendants were permitted to file an additional answer, by which they stated, that by mistake they had omitted, in…