Corson v. Hunt
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Philadelphia county. This was an action commenced by Samuel Hunt and Isaac Abrahams against George Corson, (as constable of Seventh Ward, Northern Liberties, Philadelphia county,) under the 12th section of the act of March 20, 1810, (last edit, of Purd.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Philadelphia county. This was an action commenced by Samuel Hunt and Isaac Abrahams against George Corson, (as constable of Seventh Ward, Northern Liberties, Philadelphia county,) under the 12th section of the act of March 20, 1810, (last edit, of Purd. Dig. p. 688, sec. 22.) This section directs that “ on the delivery of an execution to any constable, an account shall be stated in the docket of the justice, and also on the back of the execution, of the debt, interest, and costs, from which the said constable shall not be discharged but by producing to the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Rogers, J.
— The declaration contains three counts, on two of which at least, the second and third, the plaintiffs are entitled to judgment. The second is for' a false return, the third for refusing or neglecting to sell the goods levied on, the constable having accepted an indemnity. It is in full proof that an execution was put into the hands of the defendant, who was a constable, by the justice, and that a short time afterwards, he said he had levied, but that some person had claimed the property. A bond of indemnity was then given to him, at his…
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