Bank of Kentucky v. Harrison

JUDGE HARDIN

delivered the opinion of the court:

This action was brought by the appellants against Harrison and his sureties on his official bond as sheriff *385of Daviess comity, for an alleged failure to return an execution issued from the clerk’s office of the Hopkins circuit court, and to pay over the money collected thereon.

Harrison and some of the other defendants, although not appearing to have been summoned, appeared, and objected that the court — the Hopkins circuit court — had no jurisdiction of the cause, and the objection being sustained, the appellants excepted and prayed an appeal to…