Cox v. Crippen

Cooley J.-.

A judgment having been recovered against one Richardson, before a Justice of the Peace, in a suit commenced May 13, 1858, Crippen, the defendant in this *506suit, appears by the docket of the Justice, to have signed the following entry therein, immediately under the entry of the judgment:

“I acknowledge myself surety for the payment to the plaintiff, by the defendant, to pay the above judgment, with interest and cost thereon, on. or before the expiration of ten months from the 31st day of May, A. D. 1858, agreeably to law.

“Warren S. Crippen.”

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