66 Ala. 53 | Ala. | 1880
Phillips, Burtoff & Co. recovered judgment against Charles T. Jones, before a justice of the peace. Jones appealed to the Circuit Court, executing bond therefor, with Wade and J. P. Jones as his sureties. Before the cause was tried in the Circuit Court, Charles T. Jones died, and his estate was declared insolvent. The case was' revived in the Circuit Court, against the administrator, who pleaded the insolvency of the estate. A trial was had in the Circuit Court, in which the jury found the issue of insolvency in favor of the defendant, and found for the plaintiffs the amount of the claim sued on, with interest. The judgment was certified to the Probate Court, and in the settlement of the insolvent administration, the pro-rata share of about twenty per cent, was decreed and paid to plaintiffs. The residue of their judgment was left unpaid. The present suit is against the sureties on the appeal bond, to recover that balance.
What we have stated apove as facts, are simply the substance of what is averred in the complaint. The condition of the appeal bond, as set forth in the complaint, is, to prosecute the appeal to effect, or, if he failed in said appeal, “ to pay such judgment, as to debt and costs, as- may be rendered against him by said Circuit Court.” The judgment rendered by the Circuit Court was for the sum of eighty-one 5-100 dollars. There was a'demurrer to this complaint, which the Circuit Court sustained; and its judgment thereon is assigned as error.
In Lunsford v. Baskins, 6 Ala. 512, both the reasoning and conclusion are in conflict with what we have said above, That case is hereby overruled.
Reversed and remanded.