Fowler v. Commonwealth

Only one question is presented in this' case, and that is, whether a judgment against a Sheriff and his sureties, in a suit on his official bond, brought for his failure to pay, upon demand made of him, notes of the Bank of the Commonwealth, which, as sheriff, he had collected, m virture oí a fien jactas, for the relator, should be rendered for the nominal amount .of the notes so re- . . cieved, to be paid in the like currency, or for the money *136value of those notes, at the time when the cause of action accrued in consequence of the officer’s delinquency»

The verdict and judgment in this case,…