Humphreys v. Leggett, Smith, & Lawrence
Supreme Court of the United States
■ This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Mississippi. It arose from a former case in this court, McNutt v. Bland et al., reported in 2 Howard, 9. The facts were these. On the 6th of November, 1837, Richard J. Bland was elected sheriff of the County of Claiborne, in the State of Mississippi, for the term of two years, prescribed in the constitution of that State.
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■ This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Mississippi. It arose from a former case in this court, McNutt v. Bland et al., reported in 2 Howard, 9. The facts were these. On the 6th of November, 1837, Richard J. Bland was elected sheriff of the County of Claiborne, in the State of Mississippi, for the term of two years, prescribed in the constitution of that State. On the 10th of November, 1837, Richard J. Bland, Benjamin G.' Humphreys, and John Grissom, all of that county arid State, executed a penal bond, in the sum of $15,000, to Charles…
1Opinion of the Court
•Mi. Justice GRIER
delivered the opinion of the court.
The appellant, Humphreys, who was complainant below, filed his bill against the defendants, praying an injunction against the ssuing of an execution on a judgment they had obtained against him at law.
His bill sets forth, that he was one of the sureties of Richard Bland., late sheriff of Claiborne County, - in his official- bond. That in March, 1839, the .present defendants instituted a suit on the bond against Bland and his sureties, on which the Circuit Court rendered a judgment in favor of. the defendants. The cause was removed to this…
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