Arter v. Cairo Democrat Co.

This bill was to reform a replevin bond. The alleged mistake consists in the omission to insert the name of the defendant in the body of the instrument. A recovery was had against the sheriff and his sureties on his official bond, as for a failure to take a proper bond, in the case of The Cairo Democrat Co. v. Trover, which was affirmed in this court. Arter et al. v. The People, 54 Ill. 228. The sheriff, who is the plaintiff in error, then filed this bill to correct the alleged error in the bond taken.

Without discussing the question whether a court of chancery has power to reform a bond taken…