Court Opinion

ID: 7042051
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Date Created: 2022-07-24 06:51:14.837005+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:11:23.286350
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On petition for a rehearing.
Perkins, J.
— We give a brief history of the case.
On the 14th day of October, 1875, this action was commenced. The following is a copy of the bond executed:
*74“"We undertake that the plaintiff, Agatha Myers, shall prosecute this action with effect and without delay, and return the property in controversy to the defendant, if a return be adjudged by the court, and pay to him all such sums of money as he may recover against the plaintiff in this action for any cause whatever.
“ Agatha Myers,
“ John Dueein.”
This bond was approved by Edward T. Jencks, J. P.
No objection appears by the transcript to have been made to the bond before the justice, and it is not shown by any bill of exceptions, that objection was made to it in the circuit court orally, and no written motion was. there filed touching the matter.
No written motion in arrest of judgment was made, and no bill of exceptions shows that an oral motion was-filed.
The statute on the subject of the bond in replevin before a justice of the peace provides for filing one “ in a-sum double the value of such goods.” 2 R. S. 1876, p. 628.
In replevin in the circuit court, the statute provides for a written undertaking that the plaintiff’ will prosecute his action with effect, etc., and pay, etc.; just precisely such an instrument as was given before the justice in this-case, naming no penalty. And in 2 R. S. 1876, p. 311, is the following:
“ Sec. 790. No official bond entered into by any officer, nor any bond, recognizance or written undertaking taken by any officer in the discharge of the duties of his office, shall be void for want of form of substance, or recital, or condition, nor the principal or surety be discharged ; but the principal and surety shall be bound by such bond, recognizance or written undertaking, to the full extent contemplated by the law requiring the same, and the sureties to the amount specified in the bond or recognizance. In all actions on a defective bond, recognizance or written undertaking, the plaintiff or relator *75may suggest the defect in his complaint, and recover to tite same extent as if such bond, recognizance or 'written undertaking were perfect in all respects.”
The operation of this section was to make the undertaking filed in this case a. good and sufficient bond. And the object of it was to save these legal instruments from invalidity on account of the defects mentioned. The bond, in this case, did not subject the action to a motion to dismiss.
The petition for a rehdaring is overruled.