Slack v. Wood
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an injunction to a judgment recovered by Henry H. Wood against John Slack in the Circuit court of Kanawha. Slack had been the high sheriff of Kanawha county, and Wood, James T. Swindler and others were his sureties. • Several judgments had been recovered against Slack and his sureties for the defaults of one of his deputies. Upon these judgments executions issued which were returned by the sheriff as .paid by James T. Swindler and Henry H. Wood.
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This was an injunction to a judgment recovered by Henry H. Wood against John Slack in the Circuit court of Kanawha. Slack had been the high sheriff of Kanawha county, and Wood, James T. Swindler and others were his sureties. • Several judgments had been recovered against Slack and his sureties for the defaults of one of his deputies. Upon these judgments executions issued which were returned by the sheriff as .paid by James T. Swindler and Henry H. Wood. Subsequently Wood gave Slack notice that he would ask for a judgment against him for the amount of these executions as having been paid by…
1Opinion of the CourtLee, J.
Wood recovered a judgment against Slack the complainant in the Circuit court of Kanawha county for the sum of 318 dollars 61 cents, being for money claimed to have been paid by him as one of the sureties of Slack in his official bond as sheriff of Kanawha county, together with interest and costs of suit. The proceeding which resulted in this judgment was by notice in writing under the act of assembly in which it was alleged that sundry judgments specified in the notice, had been recovered against Wood as such surety aforesaid, and that he had been compelled to- pay the amount specified in the…
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