DeWitt v. Dunn
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Guadalupe. The execution was issued from Gonzales county to the Sheriff of Guadalupe county, and the motion was made in the latter county.
1Opinion of the Court
Hemphill, Ch. J.
This was a motion against the Sheriff and his sureties, to recover statutory damages, for failure to endorse upon an execution the day on which it came to his hands, and also for failure to pay over the amount collected on said execution. The defendants excepted on three special grounds, viz:
1st. That the mere neglect of the Sheriff to endorse on an execution the time it came into his hands, does not render him and his sureties liable for the amount of the execution.
2d. There is no averment that the Sheriff received more than one execution on the same day, and that he…
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