Texas Supreme Court October 15, 1867 (Erath County v. Robinson)

Latimer, J.

On the 12th of May, 1857, the appellees executed a bond, in the sum of $90, to the chief justice of the county of Erath, conditioned for the faithful observance of the estray law then in force, respecting an estray which had been taken up by the principal in the bond. ]¡n January, 1859, the chief justice instituted suit before a justice of the peace for a breach of the bond.