Katz v. Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance

On a body execution issued out of the Municipal Court, borough of Brooklyn, Abraham Schneiderman was arrested and confined to Raymond Street Jail. Thereafter, an undertaking for jail liberties in the sum of $500 was furnished by the Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Company pursuant to section 517 of the Correction Law (Cons. Laws, ch. 43) and the prisoner was discharged by the sheriff. The liberties of the jail for Kings county is the whole of that county which is coterminous with the borough of Brooklyn. Defendant appealed from the judgment obtained against him in the Municipal Court and…