Case Name: CHASE v. SMITH
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1830-05
Citations: 5 F. Cas. 523
Docket Number: 
Parties: CHASE v. SMITH.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 5
Pages: 523–524

Head Matter:
Case No. 2,629.
CHASE v. SMITH.
[4 Cranch, C. C. 90.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
May Term, 1830.
Action- on Unauthouized Appeal Bond.
Although an appeal will not lie to the judgment of a justice of the peace upon a verdict of a jury, yet, if the defendant does, in fact, appeal and give an appeal-bond, the plaintiff may maintain an action upon that bond.
Debt on an appeal-bond given upon an appeal from the judgment of a justice of the peace, upon the verdict of a jury. The declaration set forth the condition of the bond, which was in the usual form, except that it stated that the judgment was rendered upon the verdict of a jury before the justice. The breach assigned was the not prosecuting the appeal with effect; and not satisfying the judgment of the justice.
Z. C. Lee, for defendant,
demurred to the declaration, without oyer of the bond; contending, that inasmuch as the condition of the bond, set out in the declaration, showed that the judgment was upon a verdict before the justice of the peace; and as this court, upon the appeal in the same case, decided that this court had not jurisdiction by appeal where the judgment of the justice was upon a verdict, the bond was void.

Opinion:
But
THE COUKT
overruled the demurrer.