Stever v. Sornberger

Headnote

It is no defence to an action of debt on a recognizance of bail, that the defendant is not liable to arrest on an execution on the judgment in the cause in which the bail was put in; the remedy of the bail is to surrender the principal, if the latter does not apply for, and oltain an ex-oneretur, to be entered on the bail piece.

Demurrer to pleas. The plaintiff declared in debt on a recognizance of - bail entered into by the defendant, Uriah Sornberger, as the bail and manucaptor of Ransom Sornberger, in an action commenced against the latter by the plaintiff in this court, by capias, returnable in the term of October, 1836. The defendant pleaded that the suit of the plaintiff against Ransom Sornberger, was commenced for the recovery of money due to the plaintiff, for goods sold and delivered, and that the said Ransom Sornberger, for the period of one year previous to the commencement of the suit against him, had been and still was a resident and inhabitant of this state, to wit, at, &c., and that being such resident and inhabitant, he was not bound by the law of the land, to render himself to any of the prisons of the state, according to the form and effect of the recognizance, upon any execution, that was or could be issued on the judgment recovered by the plaintiff against him, nor could he be arrested by virtue of any execution which could be issued upon such judgment. There were two other pleas substantially like the above; to all of which the plaintiff demurred.