Harmon v. State ex rel. Pelton

Best, C.

This action was brought by the State, on the relation of Henry C. Pelton, against Theophilus K. Harmon and his co-appellants, as his sureties, upon his bond as sheriff of Benton county, Indiana.

The breach assigned was that, during Harmon’s term of office, a judgment was recovered against Joseph L. Carnahan as principal and the relator as his surety, in the Benton Circuit Court, for $217.03; that an execution, reciting such relation and directing the sheriff to first exhaust the property of said Carnahan, was delivered to said Harmon, who, by virtue thereof, levied upon personal…