Canfield v. Bates
Canfield v. Bates
Opinion of the Court
Terry, C. J. concurring.
We think the judgment should be affirmed.
1. The bond, if not technically such, was substantially, a compliance with the statute. Taking all of our statutes together, the obvious design was to put an undertaking on the same footing as a bond. This instrument contains words of obligation, and has a scroll, [l. s.] opposite the name of one of the signers. This is enough when the paper is executed by both, who, contemporaneously, verify the instrument by affidavit, as their bond, to make it the deed of both.
2. The refusal to grant the amendment was matter of discretion, which we do not think proper to interfere with. There was no affidavit of the materiality of the amendment, nor any other showing that it was important.
3. The bond seems to have been approved by the Justice, and
this is sufficient. '
We do not think this a case in which we can review the evidence.
Judgment affirmed.
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- TJndek our statutes, undertakings are on the same footing with bonds. Where an instrument, purporting to be a bond on appeal, contains words of obligation, and has a scroll opposite the name of one of the two signers, who contemporaneously verify the instrument as their bond, it is the bond of both. A refusal by the County Court, on appeal from a Justice, to permit an amendment of the complaint, is matter of discretion, and there being no affidavit of materiality, nor any showing of the importance of the amendment, this Court will not interfere.