State ex rel. Weaver v. Bolt

This was a proceeding by motion in the chancery court of Anderson county. The plaintiff in the motion was J. C. Weaver, who sought a decree against G. W. Bolt and the American Bonding Company, the surety on the bond of Bolt, as sheriff of Knox county, for the *214sum of $1,390.20, upon the predicate that Bolt, as sheriff aforesaid, had received an execution directed to him in a certain cause, and had failed to make due and proper return on such execution. The sheriff, in his answer to the motion, denied that the execution had ever been received by him, but admitted, of course, that he had never…