Jordan v. Agawam Woollen Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, brought December 18, 1869, on a bond dated December 19,1864, executed by the Agawam Woollen Company as principal, and Joseph S. Potter, John Wetherbee, Jr., and John W. Beals as sureties, conditioned that the company would keep and perform the final decree in a cause in equity then pending in the circuit court of the United States for the first circuit, within and for the district of Massachusetts, in which Eben D. Jordan was plaintiff and the company defendants,…
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Contract, brought December 18, 1869, on a bond dated December 19,1864, executed by the Agawam Woollen Company as principal, and Joseph S. Potter, John Wetherbee, Jr., and John W. Beals as sureties, conditioned that the company would keep and perform the final decree in a cause in equity then pending in the circuit court of the United States for the first circuit, within and for the district of Massachusetts, in which Eben D. Jordan was plaintiff and the company defendants, and pay to Jordan all sums which in and by said decree might be decreed to be paid by the company. All the defendants…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The bond sued on is a good bond at common law. It is conditioned to pay such sum as shall be decreed by the final decree in a cause between Jordan and the Agawam Woollen Company, then pending in the circuit court of the United States for this district. The decree rendered by that court in 1869 affirmed its own former decree of October term 1866, from which an appeal had been taken to the supreme court of the United States, and which had been affirmed by that court, with costs and interest; and, in accordance with the mandate of the supreme court, ordered execution to issue for…
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