State ex rel. Goddard, Peck & Co. v. Rayburn

Thompson J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This action is brought on the official bond of the ■defendant Rayburn, as sheriff of Dunklin county, to recover special damages alleged to have been sustained through a breach by the sheriff of the said bond in re*304leasing the levy of an attachment which he had made at the instance of the plaintiffs in a suit begun by the plaintiffs against a partnership firm called Spiller, Haynes & McRee, who were debtors to the plaintiffs, whereby the plaintiffs lost the debt and costs. The amended petition, on which the cause was tried, charges the following…