Carrington v. Anderson

The declaration, in this case, being founded on an act of Assembly of considerable importance, and having stood the test of the Court of Appeals, it may be useful to many practitioners of law to insert it entire : — -

“Cumberland county, to witCodrington Carrington, late sheriff: of Cumberland, who sues for the benefit of John Hudson, complains of Erancis Anderson and John Ballow, defendants, in custody, &c. of a plea that they render to him the sum of one hundred pounds, which they to the plaintiff owe, and from him unjustly detain ; for that, whereas by an act of the General Assembly of…