Williams v. Hall

Chief Justice 'Robertson

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This writ of error is prosecuted to reverse a judgment, on motion, against a constable and his sureties, for his failure to return, within twenty clays after the return day, » fieri facias which had been delivered to him.

There are many irregularities in the proceedings; but we shall notice only two objections to the judgment.

First. The execution having been issued on a bond described as a replevin bond, but which did not purport to have been acknowledged before any constable, the plaintiffs in error offered to prove, by one of the…