Kalbritan v. Isidor

This is an action against an officer to recover damages for a false return upon a notice to the creditor in poor debtor proceedings. The debtor, named Ditelberg, having been arrested on or about June 29, 1922, by a deputy sheriff on an execution issued upon a judgment in an action of tort recovered by the plaintiff in the Superior Court, entered into a recognizance with surety conditioned upon the debtor’s giving himself up for examination within thirty days from the day of his arrest, pursuant to the provisions of G. L. c. 224, § 20. On July 19, 1922, the debtor appeared in the Municipal…