Case Name: Boggs and another against Bancker
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1813-06-30
Citations: 5 Binn. 507
Docket Number: 
Parties: Boggs and another against Bancker.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (Binney)
Volume: 5
Pages: 507–507

Head Matter:
Boggs and another against Bancker.
1813. Philadelphia, Wednesday, June 30.
Bail are intitled ^her^tlíe principal has been ¿er ^bankrupt law, upon pay- ^ ^f^facias merely, and not those of the original suit.
IN this case, a non est was returned against the principal to March term 1812, and a scire facias against the defendant, who was the special bail, was issued to the July term following. Prior to the return day of the scire facias, the principal was discharged under the bankrupt law of Ma~ ryland, and the bail moved for an exoneretur, which was granted on the payment of costs,
The question was now submitted to the Court, whether the costs of both the original and scire facias, were or were not included in this judgment on the motion.
Tod for the plaintiffs,
suggested that they were, because . the application of the bail being to the equitable jurisdiction of the Court, equity consisted in the bail’s paying all the costs.
Binney for the bail,
answered, that the costs in the original suit were part of the judgment, and discharged with' it by the bankruptcy of the principal. All that the bail should pay, were the costs that had accrued in consequence of his not making the motion, before the scire facias was sued out.
The remaining cases in this volume were decided at an adjourned Court beginning the 27th of Jane, and forming part of March term.

Opinion:
By the Court.
The bail is to pay only the costs of the scire facias. He might as well be called upon to pay the debt, as the costs of the original suit. Both are included in the judgment in that suit, and both discharged by the exoneretur.