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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Thom v. Savage.
    The execution of an appeal bond by the surety alone without the principal, is sufficient.
    APPEAL from the Crawford Circuit Court. — A motion was made by the appellee to dismiss this case, because the appeal bond had not been executed, by the principal, but by the surety alone.
    
      
      Dunbar, for the appellant.
    
      Moore, for the appellee.
   Per Curiam.

If sufficient security be given for the due pro» secution of the appeal, the statute requiring appeal bonds is in substance complied with. It would in many instances very improperly exclude a party from the privilege of appealing, if his own execution of the appeal bond could not be dispensed with .

Motion overruled. 
      
       Ind. Stat. 1817, p. 7. — Acc. Ind. Stat. 1823, p. 131. By stat. 16 and 17 Car. 2. it is enacted, “that in writs of error brought upon any judgment after verdict, in any action of ejectione firmas, no execution shall be stayed, unless the plaintiff or plaintiffs in such writ of error, shall be bound unto the plaintiffin such action of ejectione firmae, in such reasonable sum as the Court, to which such writ of error shall be directed, shall think fit,” &c. conditioned, if the judgment be affirmed, &c., to pay costs, Sec. Even under this statute, it is not necessary for the plaintiff in error to be personally bound: if he procure proper sureties'to enter into the recognizance, it is sufficient. Keene v. Deardon, 8 East, 298. — Adamson Ejectment, 313, 314. — Vide also Dixon v. Dixon, 2 Bos. and Pull. 4&3. — Anonymous, Hardin, 149,