Legal Opinion

Collins v. Mitchell

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided July 1, 1853PublishedCited by 17 opinions

Appeal from Escambia Circuit Court. this was an action of debt upon a replevin bond, instituted by the appellee against appellant. The material facts presented by the record will be found in the opinion of the Court, to which reference is made.

1Opinion of the Court

THOMPSON, J.:

This was an action of debt, which was prosecuted in the Court below by the respondent against the appellant, as one of the sureties in a replevin bond. The original suit was brought by the appellee against the firm of John N. C. Stockton & Co., and the attachment issued therein was levied upon certain slaves, as the property of the defendants, which slaves were replevied upon a bond executed by the said firm of John N. Stockton & Co., by their attorney W. T. Stockton, and by Hanson Kelly and the appellant as sureties thereto. The declaration in the present case is in the usual…

2Cited by17 opinions

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