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8 N.C. 20

Gully v. Gully

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided June 15, 1820

Supreme Court of North Carolina · decided 1820-06-15

<p>The act of 1800, c. 9, does not require a bond of any particular form tube given for obtaining an injunction.</p> <p>The condition of a bond will be so construed by rejecting insensible words, as to fulfil the intent of the parties.</p> <p>Hence, if a bond given upon obtaining an injunction be conditioned, “ if “ the said R. G. (the Complainant) should dissolve the injunction, and " pay the sum recovered at law and interest,” the words “ should dis- “ solve the injunction, and” will be rejected as insensible.</p> <p>It is no objection to such a bond that it is taken for double tlie amount of the recovery at law : nor that it provides in the condition for the payment of interest on the sum recovered, should the injunction be dissolved.</p>

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Tavuor, Chief-Justice,

¶1after stating the case, proceeded to deliver the opinion of the Court:

¶2The act of Assembly does not prescribe the form of the condition of the bond; but the obvious design of it was to provide for the payment of the sum stayed and all costs, upon the dissolution of the injunction. Any condition, therefore, which, by a reasonable construction, stipulates for that object, ought to be supported! That the Complainant should dissolve his own injunction is what, we may safely conclude, was never meant. It is manifestly a clerical error, and inserted instead of the words “ if J. “ G. Gully and Watson shall dissolve the injunction,” &c. In that sense it ought to be construed to fulfil the intent of the parties, according to the case of Bache v. Proctor. But if those words be rejected as insensible and impossible, the condition still provides for the payment of the amount of the judgment. When Complainant has had the full benefit of this bond, by the advantage of a trial on the equity of his claim, it would be highly unjust that he *24should be allowed to defeat it by a critical objection j and, in such a case, I should yield to express authorities with reluctance.

¶3The decree below is affirmed.

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