Reynolds v. Holland

Appellant recovered judgment in the Chicot circuit court, against "Watt C. Halley, on the sixteenth'of January, 1868, upon which, on the eighteenth of July, he sued out execution.

The sheriff’ returned no property found. Appellant sued out an alias, and pointed out to the sheriff lands of the defendant in the west half of section 29, in township 13 south, of range 2 west, upon which he requested him to levy. .The,sheriff refused, upon’the ground that the lands were not within his county, and. made ’'return of this reason upon the writ.

Appellant then filed in court a petition for a mandamus to…