Rockwood v. Allen
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This action was originally brought against Jeremiah Allen, Esq., late sheriff of this county, (after whose decease the defendant came in and took the defence upon himself,) for the default of George Jackson, one of his deputies, in not levying the plaintiff’s execution, issued upon a judgment recovered by him against Richard Mero, administrator of Abraham Patch, upon certain chattels, which Jackson had attached upon the original writ against Patch.
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This action was originally brought against Jeremiah Allen, Esq., late sheriff of this county, (after whose decease the defendant came in and took the defence upon himself,) for the default of George Jackson, one of his deputies, in not levying the plaintiff’s execution, issued upon a judgment recovered by him against Richard Mero, administrator of Abraham Patch, upon certain chattels, which Jackson had attached upon the original writ against Patch. The action was tried upon the general issue, at the last November term in this county, before Parker, J., and a verdict taken for the plaintiff,…
1Opinion of the Court
The cause was submitted without argument, and the opinion of the Court (absents Parsons, C. J.) was delivered by
Sedgwick, J.
By the statute of 1783, c. 59, § 2, it is enacted that when any goods or estate are attached upon *any writ or process, in case the cause of action [ * 256 ] docs by law survive, the same shall not be released or discharged by reason of the death of either party, but be held good to respond the judgment, to be given in the suit, in the same man*216ner as by law they would have been, if such deceased person had been living; provided that where any estate, so attached, shall,…
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