Groover, Stubbs & Co. v. White

Warner, Chief Justice.

This was a rule Against the sheriff of the city court of Savannah to show cause why he should not pay to the. plaintiffs *602the amount of a distress warrant which liad been levied on the property of the defendant therein, and left in his possession without taking any bond for its forthcoming by the defendant, by reason whereof the same property was levied on by another distress warrant in favor of other plaintiffs, and sold, and the plaintiffs lost their debt. The sheriff, in his answer to the rule, showed for cause why he should not be made liable for the payment of the…