L. S. SHULER AND T. R. JONES.
Mr. Carter's bill [H. R 479] for the relief of Lawrence S. Shuler and Thomas R. Jones was read the third time.
Mr. CARTER said some years ago a judgment was rendered in the Clarke Circuit Court, against Shuler and his bondsman, and in the absence of Shuler the other parties agreed to pay $1,500, and the further agreement was made that the remaining bondsmen, who were then still living, would make the amount $300 each. The two bondsmen who were there and made the agreement have paid theirs and the other one is not able to pay it. Mr. Shuler is himself absolutely paralyzed. It is also claimed if Shuler had been there that judgment would not have been rendered against them.
The SPEAKER (Mr. Ridpath)--This is a matter which affects one of my constituents. This bill is to release two gentlemen from the liability of a judgment. As a legal proposition, the credits on the bond have been already released, from the fact that two parties to the judgment have paid their part of the judgment by an agreement with page: 153[View Page 153] the Attorney General, and the other part of the judgment was not a part of the agreement. Old man Jones lives over in my District. He is old and unable to pay the judgment.
The bill passed--yeas, 71; nays, 1.
