Commonwealth v. Thompson

This is an action of debt against a sheriff and his sureties, for an alleged delinquency by the officer, in taking insufficient security on a replevin bond, in a judgment for the benefit of the Bank of the Commonwealth.

On the trial, upon an issue involving the legality or illegality of the sheriff’s conduct in taking the bond, the Court having permitted a witness for the defendants to state that the sureties in the replevin bond owned, at its date, estate exceeding the amount to be secured by the bond, and that he “considered them good,” verdict and judgment were rendered for the defendants,…