Weaver v. State ex rel. Thompson

The state, on the relation of, Thompson, brought an action of debt against Weaver and his Sureties, on their bond conditioned for the performance, by Weaver, of his duties as a justice of the peace. It appears from the *564declaration, that Weaver had been elected a justice of the for five years from the first of November, 1836, and had given bond according to law; that on the 10th of Janua-ry^ 1840, one of the sureties filed an application, under the statute, to be discharged from the bond; that on the same day, in consequence of such application, Weaver went and waived the issuing of a summons…