Case ID: dc_2/html/0459-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Smoot v. Lee.
    In an action against the surety in a prison-bounds bond, the defendant will not be permitted to adduce evidence that the principal (the debtor) was insolvent, and therefore tlie plaintiff sustained no damage.'
    Debt on a prison-bounds bond given by W. Wise, who broke the bounds.
    
      Mr. Wallach, for the defendant,
    (the surety,) offered evidence to prove that Wise was insolvent when the bond was given; and therefore the plaintiff had suffered no damage by the breach of the condition of the bond.
   But the Court {nem. con.) rejected the evidence.