Case Name: Blanchard vs. Dwight
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1834-06-05
Citations: 12 Wend. 192
Docket Number: 
Parties: Blanchard vs. Dwight.
Judges: 
Reporter: Wendell's Reports
Volume: 12
Pages: 192–193

Head Matter:
Blanchard vs. Dwight.
On presenting a petition for the removal of a cause into the circuit court of the United States, a bond in the sum of $1000 is good security within the meaning of the act, though the sum demanded be $14,000, when the defendant has not been holden to bail in this court.
June 5.
The defendant presented a petition for the removal of this cause into the circuit court of the United States, and also presented a bond in’the penal sum of $1000, conditioned for entering in the circuit court copies of the process against him and for his appearance, and prayed for a rule that no further proceeding be had in this court. The suit was commenced ip this court by the filing and service of a declaration, in which the damages were laid at $14,000. On the part ' of the plaintiff, it was objected that the law of the United States required that the defendant, in a case like this, should offer good and sufficient surety for his appearance, «fee. and a bond in this case for $1000 was not a compliance with the act. Laws of U. S., sess. 1, ch. 20, § 12.

Opinion:
By the Court,
Nelson, J.
Had the defendant been holden to bail in this court for the sum mentioned in the declaration» the surety offered would have been insufficient; but as the suit was commenced by declaration, and of course no bail required, a bond in the penalty of $1000 is amply sufficient.