Maulding v. Steele

This was an action of assumpsit, brought in the Hamilton circuit court, for the recovery of damages claimed to have been sustained by plaintiff in error, as sheriff of that county, by reason of defendant in error having become the purchaser of a tract of land at sheriff’s sale, and refusing to pay for it. The declaration contains averments that an execution came to the hands of the sheriff, against James M. Blades, and others, issued on a judgment recovered against him as collector of taxes; that it was levied on a tract of land, and when offered for sale by the sheriff it was bid off by…