Willis v. Rivers

Bleckley, Chief Justice.

A landlord sued out a distress warrant against his tenant, claiming rent. The tenant filed an affidavit denying that the rent was due. He employed an attorney at law to prepare a bond to be given under the statute, in connection with that affidavit. The attorney requested his client, the tenant, and Mr. Willis, who had agreed to stand his security upon the bond, to sign a blank piece of paper, and said that he would write over their signatures a forthcoming bond. They signed and left the paper with him ; and a bond in the terms of the statute (code, §4083), which was a…