Case Name: J. A. Houghton and another v. J. W. Ledbetter
Court: Supreme Court of Texas
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1873
Citations: 37 Tex. 161
Docket Number: 
Parties: J. A. Houghton and another v. J. W. Ledbetter.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Reports
Volume: 37
Pages: 161–161

Head Matter:
J. A. Houghton and another v. J. W. Ledbetter.
When the principal in a replevy hond is a non-resident of the State and insolvent, it is competent to sue his sureties on the hond without joining him as a party defendant in the suit.
Error from Williamson. Tried below before the Hon. W. E. Jones.
There is no occasion for a statement of the facts.
Joseph Lee, for plaintiffs in error
Thomas P. Hughes, for defendant in error.

Opinion:
Ogden, J.
This record was filed in this court in December, 1871, and at the same time there was filed a motion for a certiorari to bring up a perfected record. But there appears to have been no further notice taken of the cause by the plaintiffs in error, either to perfect the record or to brief the one now on file.
The suit was correctly brought against the sureties on a forfeited replevy bond, without at the same time bringing suit against the principal, who was a non-resident of the State and insolvent. The cause was submitted to the court, and a judgment was rendered for the plaintiffs for the amount of the forfeited bond, and interest to the date of judgment. There is no statement of facts accompanying the record, and consequently we are without the necessary information to decide the questions raised by most of the assignments of errors. And, discovering no error in the judgment, it is affirmed.
Affirmed.