State ex rel. Haven v. Melogue

At the April term, 1854, of the Putnam Circuit Court, Haven and wife recovered a judgment against Smith and wife, in slander, for 100 dollars damages, and 50 dollars and 27 cents costs; and on the 20th day of April, 1854, sued out a fi. fa. thereon, which was delivered to the defendant Melogue, who was sheriff of Hendricks county, for execution, and which, on the 20th of October following, he returned nulla bona. This action *197is brought on the official bond of Melogue as sheriff, against him and his sureties, assigning for breaches that the above return was false, and that it was not made…