
    Langs against Galbraith.
    In Error.
    THE defendant in error, the plaintiff below, brought an action of trespass against Langs before a justice of the peace, and obtained judgment for 47 dollars, on the 27th June, 1812. The record of the justice contained the following entries.
    
      July 6th, 1812, bail entered in 60 dollars. July 17th, defendant appeared, appealed, and was bound in 60 dollars.
    The court below quashed the appeal.
    The securi-' ty of a defendant on appeal from tlie judgment of a justice of the peace, in trespass, must be jn double the amount recovered.
    
      Bradford and Greenough for the plaintiff in error.
    
      Maus and Marr contra.
   This Court

examined the record, and it appearing, that security had not been given in double the amount of the judgment, as required by law, on entering the appeal, therefore the judgment of the Court of Common Pleas to quash the appeal was affirmed.  