Byrd v. Governor of Missouri

Wash, X,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This was an action of debt commenced in the Circuit Court, against Byrd, as the security in an administration bond. On the trial, an agreement between the defendant and the creditors of the deceased was read in evidence, hy which it appears as follows: <£ that Col. Byrd proposed to go into the Circuit Court and,©pter his appearance without writ, to such suits as the creditors of Chamberlain may institute against him, for waste on the administration bond. All creditors may inslitute suit, and he will agree with the creditors to try one to establish…