State ex rel. Adams v. Brown

Debt against a justice of the peace and his sureties on his official bond. The condition of the bond is, that the justice shall faithfully discharge the duties of his office. The declaration alleges that the relator, Adams, on the 1st of April, 1836, recovered a judgment before the justice against one Codner for a certain sum and costs, from which no appeal was taken; that the justice neglected to issue an execution upon the judgment until the 16th of May; that in the mean time Codner had disposed of his property and become insolvent; and that the execution was returned nulla bona. The…