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37 Ala. 446

Stewart v. Warfield

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided January 15, 1861

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1861-01-15

Tried before the Hon. Alex. McKiNStey- This was -a summary proceeding, by notice and motion, at the suit of-Hazael Warfield, against George N. Stewart, as the surety on a bail-bond for one James Hagan,-who had been arrested on-a ca sa. -sued out'by said Warfield, The judgment is as follows : “ This day came the plaintiff, by his attorneys, and the defendant in his-own proper person ;: and it appearing to the court, that one James Hagan was arrested on the :15th March, 1858,…

Relies on Campbell v. May · Underwood v. School Township 16

Decided 1861-01-15

R. W. WALKER, J.

¶1The condition of a bail-bond may be broken, not only by the principal obligor’s passing beyond the prison bounds, that is, the boundary of the county, but also by his failure to surrender himself to the jailor at-the expiration of the term of sixty days. — Code, §§ 2734, 2737, 2740. “If the debtor is guilty of an escape, by passing beyoiid the prison bounds,” without payment of the judgment, interest, and costs, the obligee in the bond is entitled to a summary remedy, by notice and motion, against the debtor and his sureties on the bail-bond.— Code, § 2737. But no such summary proceeding is authorized in case the debtor is guilty of an escape, not by passing beyond the prison bounds, but by failing to surrender himself to the jailor at the end of sixty days.

¶2As the debtor may -be guilty of -an escape in either of the two ways above specified, and as the summary remedy by motion is only given in case the escape is “ by passing beyond the prison bounds,” it .follows that, in order to sustain a judgment against a surety, in a summary proceeding under section 2737 of the Code, the record must affirmatively show that the debtor was guilty of an escape “by passing beyond the prison bounds.” This is not done in the present case, and the judgment must be reversed, -and the cause remanded. — See Underwood v. School Township. 34 Ala. 29 ; Campbell v. May, 31 Ala. 569 ; Bates v. P. & M. Bank, 8 Porter, 99 ; and cases collected, Sheph. Digest, 747.

¶3.Reversed and remanded.

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