Brown v. Henderson

The appellee obtained a rule in the Circuit Court upon the appellant, to show cause why he should not pay over to the appellee, (to the use of Joseph Jones,) the residue of the sum of $2,550, made hjr the appellee as late Sheriff of the county of St. Louis, by virtue of two executions, issued out of the Clerk’s office of said county, returnable to the August term of said Circuit Court, in the year 1819, at the suit of Gabriel Long against said Henderson, one for $950, and the other for $654.

The defendant showed cause, that besides the two executions in the rule mentioned, another execution…