Scarborough v. Stevens

The Treasurer of the State in the month of May, 1841, in conformity with two acts of the legislature, (Bullard & Curry’s Dig. p. 718, sec. 2, No. 61,—p. 800, sec. 2,) issued an execution against Scarborough, the former sheriff of Ouachita, directing the present sheriff, the defendant, to seize his property and sell it, for the purpose of paying the State taxes for the year 1838, which he had collected and not paid into the Treasury. Under this writ, the sheriff made a seizure, and advertised certain property for sale. The plaintiff presented his petition for an injunction, which was allowed,…