Lambard v. Pike
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report from Nisi Prius, Howard, J. presiding. The case was submitted to the court with power to draw inferences of fact. So far as the matters presented in argument were decided, the character and facts of the case are too fully stated in the decision, to justify the taking of room for the recital of them here.
1Opinion of the CourtShepley, C. J.
— The action is case against a former sheriff of the county of Somerset for the default of his deputy, Seth Greenleaf, in omitting to make an attachment of the estate of Elijah D. Johnson and Samuel Soule, on a writ in favor of the plaintiff against them. The name of Samuel Soule was erased and judgment was in that suit recovered against Johnson alone. The execution issued thereon was afterward in the hands of the defendant, and it was by him returned in no part satisfied.
There is no count in the declaration charging the defendant with personal neglect or misconduct in relation to the…
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