Hamilton v. Pan American Southern Corp.

Paul AVakd, Associate Justice.

The principal question involved in this appeal relates to the liability of a sheriff for failing to make a statutory return on an execution. Most of the facts involved are not in dispute. The ones presently set out are not questioned.

Facts. In 1956 appellee, Pan American Southern Corporation, secured a judgment in the Pulaski County Circuit Court against one R. AN. Coyle in the sum of $2,782.42. The judgment not having been paid, appellee’s attorneys had an execution issued by the Pulaski County Circuit Clerk against Coyle, directed to the sheriff of Prairie…