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19 Johns. 292

Matthison v. Forbus

New York Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1822

New York Supreme Court · decided 1822-01-15

THIS was an action of debt brought on a bail-bond given to the plaintiff, as sheriff of the county of Madison, on a writ , against Kern, in favour of Jehiel Tuttle, in the Court of Common Pleas. The cause was removed by habeas corPus into this Court. The declaration was in the usual form, The defendant pleaded non est factum, and comperuit ad r J 7. . f diem, prout patét per recordum.

Decided 1822-01-15

Spencer, Ch. J.

¶1delivered the opinion of the Court. The defendant must have judgment. The plaintiff’s attorney has mistaken the practice of the Court. The plaintiff ought not to have put in bail$ but should have paid the debt and costs of the action, and of the proceedings on the attachment, and then sued on the báíl bond. (1 Tidd’s Pr. 262.) The defendant in the original action has appeared to that suit, by putting in special bail, by Barnard. It is true, that the bail was given at the instance of the plaintiff; but that is immaterial ; it is an appearance according to the exigency of the bail bond; and on the plea of comperuit ad diem, as by the record, &c. there can be no inquiry who caused special bail to be filed. Whether the plaintiff can have a remedy against the defendant, after satisfying the original judgment, as for so much paid for the defendant, is not a matter of inquiry here ; but that, at all events, is his only remedy.

¶2Judgment for the defendant.

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