Blunt v. Sheppard

This was an action originally commenced before a Justice of the Peace, by certiorari; taken to the Circuit Court, and the proceedings there set aside, and a trial had on the merits; a judgment for the plaintiff, now defendant in error, for about $84. This suit, before the Justice, was against the Constable, for a false return to an execution. It appears by an endorsement on the execution, that a deputy Constable made the return, first nulla bona, and also stayed till returned by plaintiff’s ■ order. None of the evidence, had before the Court, is preserved.

The first question made, is, will the…