State ex rel. Lines v. Sandlin

Action by the appellant against the appellees on a constable’s bond, for not levying and making the amount of an execution in favor of the relators, against one Millington Lewis, it being alleged in the complaint that the execution defendant had property, out of which the constable might and should have made the money. The defendants, the constable and his surety, pleaded jointly the general denial, and the constable separately pleaded, “ that in all things he obeyed the mandate and bidding of the plaintiff’s attorney, and that he used both lawful and unlawful means to secure and make the…