Hines v. International Harvester Co.

The International Harvester Company of America sued out a purchase-money attachment in a justice’s court against Hines, and subsequently appealed the case to a jury in the superior court. The surety on the bond to secure the attachment was the same as the surety on the appeal bond. Hines moved to dismiss the appeal on this ground; whereupon the judge of the superior court allowed the bond to be amended by the addition of another surety. Hines, in a writ of error to this crurt, complains of this, action.

In the case of Fisher v. Pearson, 1 Ga. App. 517 (57 S. E. 1018), it was held that where,…