Curtin v. Harvey

Citations

• 120 Cal. 620
• 52 P. 1077
• 1898 Cal. LEXIS 819

Syllabus

<p>Attachment—Bond fob Release—Extent of Liability of Shbeties.—Under a bond to secure the release of an attachment given in pursuance of section 540 of the Code of Oivil Procedure, and reciting that in consideration of such release, the sureties “do hereby jointly and severally promise and undertake in the sum of five hundred dollars, and promise that in case the plaintiff recover judgment in the said action the defendant will, on demand, pay the said judgment . . . . or, in default thereof, the said defendant and his sureties will, on demand, pay to the said plaintiff the full value of the property so released, not exceeding the sum of five hundred dollars,’' the liability of the sureties is limited to the value of the property released.</p>