Ashby v. Tureman
Ashby v. Tureman
Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the Court.
THIS was an action upon an injunction bond, executed by Tureman and the other defendants as his securities. The condition of the bond recites, “ that whereas the above bound John Tureman hath obtained an injunction to stay further proceedings upon a judgment that said -Philip Ashby in our Floyd circuit court recoy-
The declaration, after setting forth the bond and its condition, alleges, that the suit in chancery having come on to be heard, the court decreed that the injunction should be dissolved, and that Tureman, the then complainant, should pay to Ashby ten per cent, damages upon the amount of the judgment enjoined, and the «osts of the chancery suit; and it then assigns for ■breaches of the condition of the bond, 1st, that Ture-man or his securities had not paid to Ashby the amount ©f the judgment at law; and 2dly, that they had not paid the damages and costs awarded to Ashby on the dissolution of the injunction.
Tureman' and his securities pleaded that they had performed the condition of the bond, and issue was thereupon joined to the country. On the trial, after Ashby had read in evidence the records of the former suit at law and the suit in chancery, the court, on the motion of Tureman and his securities, instructed the juryq that Ashby could only recover the ten. per cent, damages and the costs awarded in the suit in chancery, to which Ashby excepted; and the jury having found a verdict according to the instruction of the court, a judgment was rendered upon the verdict, from which Ashby has appealed to this court.
The sole question presented by the record, is, whether the instruction given by the circuit court is correct or not?
It is insisted by the counsel for Ashby, that he had a right to recover the amount of the judgment at law, as well as the ten per cent, damages and the costs of the Suit in cljancery. No arguments, however, in support of this position, are given in the brief with which v/e^ have been furnished by the counsel, and we candidly confess, that our own minds have been unable to suggest any that can de deemed sufficient. It is evident, that Ashby’s right of recovery' can only be co-extensive with the terms of the condition of the injunction bond. The law, indeed, requires the complainant, on obtaining an injunction, tq execute bond with security for the
Judgment affirmed with costs.
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