Gass v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

This is an appeal from a final judgment on a bond forfeiture against appellants. The bond in question binds the principal and sureties in the sum of $1000.00, jointly and severally. The judgment nisi exhibited in the record shows that a judgment was taken against the principal in the sum of $1000.00 and against the two sureties in the sum of $1000.00 each. Under the terms of the bond the sureties were jointly and severally bound for $1000.00 but not in the sum of $1000.00 each and a nisi judgment so reciting was clearly erroneous. There can be no valid final judg ment except…