Legal Opinion

Conner v. Bean

Supreme Court of New Hampshire

Decided December 15, 1861Published

Debt on a bond of indemnity. ,jPlea, the general issue and non damnificatus. In December, 1852, one Albert- S. Conner was in trade in Chicopee, Mass., and the defendant, A. II.

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Debt on a bond of indemnity. ,jPlea, the general issue and non damnificatus. In December, 1852, one Albert- S. Conner was in trade in Chicopee, Mass., and the defendant, A. II. Bean, having a note against him for $125.61, dated January 14, 1852, payable on sis months, December 9, 1852, sued Conner in the court of common pleas on said note, returnable on the second Tuesday of March, 1853. The writ was placed in the hands of Sylvester Churchill, a deputy sheriff, for service, who, on the tenth day of December, 1852, attached a stock of goods in the possession of Conner, on said writ. December…

1Opinion of the CourtBellows, J.

The material facts in this case are that Churchill, a deputy sheriff, attached a stock of goods as the property of A. S. Conner, upon a writ against him in favor of Bean, the defendant; and the goods being claimed by H. G. Conner, the defendant gave Churchill his bond, with the condition to “save Churchill harmless from all damages, costs, and expenses which he shall incur,” and to pay all money he shall be compelled to pay by reason of having attached the goods. Afterward a suit was brought by H. G. Conner against the said Churchill for taking these goods, in which H. G. Conner recovered…

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