11 Mass. 234
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 15, 1814
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1814-05-15
This was a writ of scire facias against the defendant as bail of one David Herrin.
Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently June 1881
Cited in Bouvier (1914)’s definition of “Recognizance”
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1814-05-15
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¶1The return of the officer is not non est inventus; nor sufficient to charge the bail. Let the plaintiff be called,
¶2Plaintiff nonsuit.
¶3*219CASES ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT, IN THE COUNTY OF LINCOLN, JUNE TERM, 1814, AT WISCASSET. PRESENT: Hon. SAMUEL SEW ALL, Chief Justice. Hon. GEORGE THATCHER,) Hon. ISAAC PARKER, > Justices Hon. DANIEL DEWEY, )
¶4 Vide Sayward & Al. vs. Conant, ante, 146, and note.