Bowman v. Waldt

— This appeal concerns the court’s duty, at the request of an indigent judgment creditor, to require the director of the Department of Public Safety of King County, who functions as a sheriff, to levy a writ of execution on the judgment debtor’s personal property without prepaying the statutory filing fees and without furnishing a sheriff’s indemnity bond generally required of all judgment creditors.

Plaintiff Max M. Bowman obtained a $52.80 judgment against one Vila Fleck in the Small Claims Division of the Seattle District Justice Court. Upon Fleck’s refusal to pay the judgment, plaintiff…