Case ID: dc_5/html/0674-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Madison Jeffers v. Joseph Forrest.
    If the appellant from the judgment of a justice of the peace, die pending the appeal, and no further proceedings are had in the cause for two terms thereafter, the sureties in the appeal-bond are not liable for the appellant’s not haying prosecuted his appeal with effect.
   Debt upon an appeal-bond in the penalty of $100. The breach assigned was in not.prosecut.ing the appeal with effect.

The defendant pleaded that the appellant died pending the appeal, and that at the third tei;m after the death the appeal was abated and discontinued.

Upon demurrer, judgment was rendered for the defendant.