American Surety Co. v. Van Gilder

SIMONS, Circuit Judge.

This appeal, as that in Optner v. Bolger, 6 Cir., 95 F.2d 241, involves the consequences under Michigan statute law of an escape from the jail limits of a judgment debtor released from the custody of a sheriff under a jail limits bond. As in the Optner case, the problem is one of first impression.

The plaintiff and appellee is the judgment creditor of -one Sturgis, who was taken into custody under an alias writ of capias ad satisfaciendum, by the sheriff of Clinton County, and by the sheriff released upon the furnishing of a jail limits bond,, pursuant to Sections 14729…