Walker v. Lewis, 3 N.C. 16, 2 Hayw. 16 (1797)

Nov. 1797 · North Carolina Superior Court
3 N.C. 16, 2 Hayw. 16

Walker & Younger vs. Lewis & Bingford, Bail for Fleming.

‘HpHIS was a sci.fa. to have judgment and execution against the defendants, as bail for Fleming, against whom the plaintiffs had recovered judgment and taken out a ca. sa. which had been returned non esi inventus s and to this sci.fa, the defend* *17tmu' nleac.?d mil del re< ord, the. paper supposed to be a bail bond, and relied on as such by the plaintiffs, when produced, appeared to have all the forms oí a bail bond, except the seal which it had not.

Per curiam

This is a fatal variance ; the sci.fa. states a bail bond as the ground of this proceeding, and by the act the set. feu can only issue to charge them as bail when they have executed a bond, and that is returned and filed amongst the records of the court, 1777, ch. 3, sec. 16,18, 19. Here it wants a circumstance ¡Material to the essence oí' a bend.

Tile court adjudged there was no such recordó