Legal Opinion

Mitchell v. Denbo

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided June 8, 1833PublishedCited by 2 opinions

APPEAL from the Harrison Circuit Court. In'this case Denbo was the plaintiff, and Mitchell and others the defendants, in the Circuit Court. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff.

1Opinion of the CourtStevens, J.

This is an action brought on a delivery-bbnd, for the delivery of certain goods and chattels to the sheriff at the time arid place of sale; those goods and chattels having been, by the sheriff, seized and taken in execution on a writ of Ji. fa.; and the breach assigned is the failure to deliver. The whole proceedings and. the bond are bottomed on the 12th section of the act of 1831, subjecting real and personal estate to execution. In this case two errors exist.

The.plaintiff! after he had proved that the goods and chattels which the obligors bound themselves to deliver, were sufficient to…

2Cited by2 opinions

  1. Anderson v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1941
  2. People ex rel. Attorney-General v. FolsomCalifornia Supreme Court · 1855

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