Andress v. Roberts

This was a motion, made by the defendant in error against Andress, as sheriff of Monroe, for failing to pay over certain monies, which it was alleged he had collected on an execution, placed in his hands on the 23d January 1845, in favor of the defendant in error against one Neal Beard, for $6,810 41 — the sum collected amounting to the sum of three thousand six hundred and one dollars and fourteen cents.

As an answer to this motion, the defendant pleaded that the Branch of the Bank of the State of Alabama at Mobile, on the 5th day of June 1844, recovered a judgment in the County Court of…