Governor ex rel. Newman v. Shelby

Debt on a sheriff’s bond, brought by the governor for the use of Newman, administrator of Hancock, deceased, against M. Shelby, administratrix of E. Shelby, deceased, one of the sureties of Weathers, late sheriff of Clark county. The breach assigned is, that Weathers failed to return an execution in favour of Hancock against A. Sumner, administratrix of W. B. Sumner, deceased, which issued from the clerk’s pffice of the Clark Circuit Court on the 10th of September, 1817, and was placed in the hands of Weathers, as sheriff, for collection. And it is averred, that Newman, administrator of…