Meierhoffer v. Kennedy

Suit on appeal bond given by defendant Kennedy as principal and defendant Swenson as one of his sureties in a suit by the plaintiff, Charles Meierhoffer, against said defendant Kennedy in Jackson County Circuit Court, wherein judgment was rendered against defendant Kennedy for $6836.70, and by him appealed to the Kansas City Court of Appeals, where the judgment of the circuit court was affirmed. Said bond was in the sum of $14,000, and in the form prescribed by the statute.

The answer was (a) general denial; (b) that the petition in the case appealed from in which the bond was given did not…