McHaney v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “As we have already seen, the statute provides that the bond shall be conditioned that the defendant shall perform the judgment of the court in the action. Thus it will be seen that a redelivery bond in a replevin suit is not in the strict sense a substitute for the property released in pursuance thereof, nor has the surety on the redelivery bond the option to return the property. The condition of the bond is that the surety shall perform the judgment of the court in the action. It will be readily seen that in many cases the property, as in the case of automobiles, might be rendered valueless or at least materially diminished in value by the constant use of it from the time of the execution of the redelivery bond until the trial of the case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mack Trucks of Arkansas, Inc. v. Yarbrough