Case Name: Muse Tollison, et. al. ads. George Miller, Assignee
Court: Constitutional Court of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1824-11
Citations: 1 Harp. 389
Docket Number: 
Parties: Muse Tollison, et. al. ads. George Miller, Assignee.
Judges: Colcock, Huger, and Richardson, justices, concurred..
Reporter: South Carolina Law Reports
Volume: 16
Pages: 389–390

Head Matter:
Muse Tollison, et. al. ads. George Miller, Assignee.
Bond for the Prison boundstis assignable under the act.
Action of debt, by the Plaintiff, as assignee of Thomas Pool, sheriff, against Muse Tollison and his securities, on a prison bounds bond. After craving oyer of the-condition of the bond, the defendant demurred generally. The demurrer was overruled On motion to reverse the decision.
Irby & Goodman, for motion.
Thompson, contra.

Opinion:
' The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Gantt.
.The only question in this case was, whether a prison bounds bond, given by a defendant in execution, is assignable under the- act; so as to'enable the assignee to maintain an action in his own name thereon. The words of- the act are express on the subject, that such shall be the ./course of proceedings: Seo prison bounds act, 7th clause, P. L» 457; also 1'M'Cord, 373; 2M'Cord, 137, 267; and State Reports, 105. The motion to reverse decision below must fail.
Colcock, Huger, and Richardson, justices, concurred..