Whiting v. Trafton
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
This was an action against the defendant, as Sheriff of the county, for an alleged misfeazance of his deputy, Nathan Heywood. The important facts in the case are found in the opinion of the Court. The affidavits on the writ against Littlefield were as follows. “ State of New-Hampshire. Rockingham, ss.
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This was an action against the defendant, as Sheriff of the county, for an alleged misfeazance of his deputy, Nathan Heywood. The important facts in the case are found in the opinion of the Court. The affidavits on the writ against Littlefield were as follows. “ State of New-Hampshire. Rockingham, ss. March 15, 1836. Then personally appeared Caleb Whiting, the creditor within named, and made oath, that the amount or .principal part of the debt claimed by him, the said Whiting, creditor as aforesaid, is actually due and unpaid, and that he has sufficient reason to believe and doth believe,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was drawn up by
EmeRy J.
This is a suit against the defendant as Sheriff of this county, because, as is alleged, Nathan Heywood, a deputy of the defendant, on a writ of attachment in favor of the plaintiff, against one Horace P. Littlefield, on the 21st of March, 1836, returned that he had arrested the body of said Littlefield, and that he gave bail, and the plaintiff having obtained judgment in his suit against Littlefield, took out execution, and delivered it to Heywood on the 11th of May, 1837, for service, who returned it unsatisfied for want of property belonging…
2Cited by1 opinion
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