King v. Strain

Debt against a sheriff for suffering an escape from arrest on an execution. Pleas, the general issue; and two special picas, both held good on general demurrer. Judgment for the defendant.

One of the special pleas shows that the execution on which the arrest took place was issued on Sunday, the proper affidavit *480having been made; that the arrest was made on the same day; and that the execution-debtor also on that day, pro-curred a discharge from the custody of the defendant, by complying with the act subjecting real and personal estate to execution.

C. W. Barbour, for the plaintiff. A. Kinney…