Willard v. Lull
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trespass on the Case against the defendant, as sheriff of the county of Windsor, for the default of his deputy, George C. Pratt, in not seasonably returning an execution in favor of the plaintiff against one Montague, which was levied on land. Plea, the general issue, and trial by jury, March Term, 1846, — Redpield, J., presiding.
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Trespass on the Case against the defendant, as sheriff of the county of Windsor, for the default of his deputy, George C. Pratt, in not seasonably returning an execution in favor of the plaintiff against one Montague, which was levied on land. Plea, the general issue, and trial by jury, March Term, 1846, — Redpield, J., presiding. On trial it appeared, that the plaintiff took out a writ in his favor against Montague and others, dated October 19, 1840, and returnable to the November Term of Windsor county court, 1840, which was on the same day served by attaching the town of Bridge-water as…
1Opinion of the Court
*376The opinion of the court was delivered by
Redfield, J.
In the county court this case was decided upon the question, whether the levy was sufficient to connect it with the lien created by the attachment. In regard to that question, there certainly has been a very general opinion prevalent among the profession in consonance with the decision of the court below. Intimations to that effect will be found in some of the opinions of this court, but no decision has certainly gone that length within our present recollection.
But two other subordinate questions have been presented during the argument in…
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