S. Jacobs, Bernheim & Co. v. Shannon

HEAD, Associate Justice.

Plaintiffs in error brought this suit against defendant in error G. W. Shannon, as sheriff of Eastland County, and the sureties on his official bond, to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by the negligence of said Shannon in taking an insufficient claimant’s bond and delivering to Deland & Redfield, the claimants, a certain stock of merchandise which had been attached by plaintiffs in error as the property of one Caldwell.

The defects in the claimant’s bond, as alleged in plaintiffs’ petition, consisted of its being made payable to them jointly, instead of…