Dunford v. Weaver

Talcott, P. J.:

This appeal is from a judgment rendered on a verdict at the Oneida Circuit.

The defendant is sued, as sheriff of Oneida county, for the escape of one John Tillinghast, who had been received into0 his custody under four several final precepts or mandates issued by the surrogate of Oneida in a proceeding originally commenced by John Boyle as a creditor of Ross Taylor, deceased, and of whose estate the said John Tilling-]) ast had been appointed administrator with the will annexed. One Mathew M. Parker, one of the sureties of the said John Tillinghast as such administrator, had…