State ex rel. Goodwin v. Williamson

YoRies. Judge,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This action, was founded on a bond executed by the defendant, William Williamson, as the sheriff of St. Clair county, aud by the other defendants as the sureties of Williamson on said bond.

The petition charged the execution of the bond by said sheriff in the sum of five thousand dollars, in the usual form, payable to the State, and that the other defendants were his sureties. The breach of the bond stated in the petition was substantially as follows : That the relator had, on the 17th day of June, 1870, recovered a judgment in the County Court…