Greenbaum v. Martinez

Gibson, C.

Action against defendant Martinez as constable, and the sureties on his official bond, to recover, as damages, the sum of $262.84, the value of 160 sacks of wheat, alleged to have been wrongfully taken and converted by Martinez, as constable, under a writ of attachment issued in an action prosecuted in a court of a justice of the peace, and, also, the further sum of $100, alleged to have been expended for an attorney’s fee in the pursuit of the wheat. Trial was had before the court without a jury, and resulted in certain findings, — among others, that the wheat was taken as alleged,…