Reed v. Philpot's Administrator

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Stanley

Affirming.

This suit for damages' was filed by the widow and children of Henry Eeed against the administrator of E. C. Philpot’s estate, Joe Spivy, and the sureties on the bond of Philpot, as chief of police of the city of Irvine. The jury returned a verdict for the defendants, and the plaintiffs appeal.

The petition alleges that Eeed was a deputy sheriff of Estill county, and that, while he had one Estes in custody on a charge of transporting and possessing intoxicating liquor, Philpot, while acting in his official capacity, had summoned Spivy to…