Birdsong v. Trans-American Van Service, Inc.

ROBERTSON, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

Raymond Birdsong, the defendant in a replevin action brought by Trans-American Van Service, Inc. against him to recover a 1971 Kentucky Van, appeals from a default judgment for $21,422 rendered against him in the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial District of Panola County.

In its declaration in replevin, Trans-American set forth the value of the van as $2,000, and stated that it was “prepared to file herein a good and sufficient bond in the amount of $4,000, said amount being double the value of the personal property as alleged herein, . . .

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