Sparks v. Hopsen
Sparks v. Hopsen
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
Sparks was surety on the replevin bond for $100, given by the defendants in a replevin suit, in a court of a justice of the peace, for a horse. Defendants won in that court, which adjudged that they retain the horse. The bond is conditioned, as in the form set out in Code, § 3716, to be void if the horse should be produced before the court to satisfy its judgment, but is silent as to costs. But the plaintiff appealed, with superse-deas, to the circuit court, and won there, and the judgment was that the horse be restored to him, and that defendant and Sparks, his surety on the replevin bond, pay $214.75, the costs; Sparks, however, to.be exonerated on payment of $100, the penalty of his bond, the horse having been delivered to plaintiff.
It is urged here by Sparks that he is bound only, by the letter of his bond, to have the horse forthcoming, which was done, and that it was error to hold him for any costs at all. In Phillips v. Cooper, 59 Miss., 18, this court construed sections 1530
Affirmed.
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