State v. Michaels

Debt on an official bond against John B. Michaels, sheriff of Tippecanoe county, and others, his sureties. The suit is by the state on the relation of the state bank. The breach of the bond complained of, is the refusal of the sheriff to execute a writ of habere facias possessionem issued upon a judgment in ejectment, in favour of the relator, in the Parke Circuit Court. The defendants pleaded three pleas.

The first is as follows: The defendants say “that said John B. Michaels, sheriff as aforesaid, was not bound by the laws of the land to serve the writ named in said declaration, because they…