Andrews v. Beane

This action was begun in the Justice Court of the city of Providence, where the defendant recovered judgment for his costs, March 4, 1886. On the last of the five days allowed for an appeal, to wit, on March 9, 1886, the plaintiffs, for the purpose of taking an appeal to the next June Term of the Court of Common Pleas, paid the defendant’s costs and filed a paper, purporting to be an appeal bond, executed in their names by their attorney of record, subscribing as their attorney without any authority under seal to do so. The appeal was entered May 15,1886, and, the case coming on for trial on…