Illinois Supreme Court April 15, 1857 (County of Warren v. Jeffrey)

Skinner, J.

This was an action of debt. The declaration sets forth that Robert Jeffrey, having been elected a justice of the peace for the precinct of Monmouth, in the county of Warren, within twenty days thereafter, on the 15th day of February, 1853, as principal, and the other defendants, as his securities, executed a bond (which is set out hcee verba) to the plaintiff in the sum of one