Reilly v. Crowley

The appellee moves the court to dismiss the appeal because of certain defeats in the appeal-bond. The instrument purporting to.be a bond begins with a recital of the fact that the defendant below was about to appeal from the judgment rendered against him in the action; that the clerk had fixed the probable costs of the appellate court at *287forty dollars. It then proceeds: “Now, therefore, in consideration of the premises, and of such appeal, we, the undersigned, residents and freeholders of the county of Cochise, do hereby jointly and severally undertake and promise on the part of the defendant…