Case ID: white-w_1/html/0124-01.html
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Author: {"author": "White, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

R. G. Peters v. T. J. Duke, County Judge.
    (No. 2306, R. Book No. 4, p. 268.)
    Appeal from Hood County.
    December 21, 1882.
   Opinion by

White, P. J.

§ 304. Bond for hire of county convicts, suit on; disqualification of judge. In a suit upon a bond executed under the provisions of art. 3604, Rev. Stats., for the hire of a county convict, the county judge has no such interest in the suit as would disqualify him from trying the cause.

§ 305. Hirer; his liability, when fixed. The hirer of a convict is not liable upon his bond, where convict has escaped, for the amount of the bond, or any part thereof, until the bond becomes due; because he may, by terms of the statute, if he re-arrests the convict before the bond becomes due, so fix his liability as to limit it to the pay due only for the time that such convict remained with him [Eev. Stats, art. 3605], and a suit brought upon such bond, before its maturity, is prematurely brought, and cannot be maintained.

Reversed and remanded.