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12 Kan. 353

Couse v. Phelps

Supreme Court of Kansas

Decided January 15, 1874

Supreme Court of Kansas · decided 1874-01-15

Hrror from Saline District Cowrt. Phelps brought suit against Couse, counting on an undertaking executed by Couse, as surety for one Bayers, to enable Bayers to obtain a return of property seized on an order of attachment issued in an action brought by Phelps against Bayers. To the petition in this case Couse demurred. The district court, at the November Term 1872, overruled the demurrer, and gave judgment for the plaintiff, and Couse brings the case here on error.

Decided 1874-01-15

¶1The opinion of the court was delivered by

Brewer, J.:

¶2This case is disposed of by the decision in McGonigle v. Gordon, 11 Kas., 167. It was there decided that “in an action on an undertaking given by the defendant in' an attachment case, to secure the release of the attached property, it was necessary to aver, and show by the evidence, that the attached property was restored to the defendant, or there could be no recovery on the undertaking.” This was *354an action on such an undertaking, and the petition did not allege any restoration of the property to the defendant. Hence, the demurrer should have been sustained; and the judgment of the district court is reversed, and the case remanded with instructions to sustain the demurrer. .

All the Justices concurring.
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