Hall v. Tierney
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Anoka county against defendants, John Tierney and others, as principal and sureties, to recover $5,000' upon the official bond of defendant Tierney, as sheriff of said county. From an order, Giddings, J., overruling defendant Tierney’s demurrer to the complaint and sustaining the separate demurrer of the other defendants, plaintiff and defendants sev-' erally appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
This action was brought against a sheriff and his sureties upon his official bond to recover for bodily injuries alleged to have been received by the plaintiff at the hands of such sheriff, who demurred generally to the complaint, while the sureties interposed a separate general demurrer. The court below sustained the demurrer interposed by the sureties, but overruled that of the sheriff. Both parties appealed, and the causes were submitted and argued together.
Two causes of action were attempted to be set forth in the com*408plaint. After formal allegations, it was averred, as a first cause of…
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