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7 Cow. 472

Ex parte Badgley

New York Supreme Court

Decided October 15, 1827

New York Supreme Court · decided 1827-10-15

ON habeas corpus to the sheriff of Oolumbia. Two suits were commenced, and judgments obtained in this court against Badgley; in both of which Wager became special bail. In one, a Ca. sa. issued; and the defendant being arrested by the sheriff of Columbia, Wager became surety for the jail liberties; whereupon Badgley escaped.

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Decided 1827-10-15

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¶1We agree with counsel, that we may discharge as to imprisonment upon the ca. sa. though it be regular upon the committitur in the other suit. The bail piece which was followed by the ca. sa. had lost its force by an imprisonment of the body upon that writ; and there was no right to surrender upon the limit bond. This creates the relation of principal and surety, not of principal and bail. The latter relation is necessary to warrant a surrender. We are not aware that this rule has ever been departed from, except in the case mentioned as having been before the late judge Wan Hess, upon a recognizance of bail in a criminal case. Without expressing an opinion upon that case, we are clear that a case of surety for the jail liberties, which is not matter of record, but exists merely in pais, does not warrant a surrender, any more than the case of any other surety. The prisoner must be discharged as to this cause of imprisonment. [1]

¶2Eule accordingly.

¶3 See N. Y. Dig. vol. 2, tit. Habeas Corpus.

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