Andrews v. Paine

This is an action of trespass on the case for deceit brought by a sheriff and his deputy. The plaintiffs were nonsuited in the Superior Court; the case is in this court on plaintiffs’ exception to the nonsuit.

On November 16, 1929, a writ of attachment in the suit of Sweet v. Taylor was served by one of the plaintiffs and certain personal property of the defendant Taylor was attached. The same day Taylor delivered to the officer a statutory bond signed by himself as principal and by Howard S. Paine as surety in the penal sum of $400. To induce the officer to accept him as surety Paine made an.…