State v. Grimsley

At the November term, 1843, of the St. Louis Circuit Court, the State commenced suit against Jacob R. Stine, Thornton Grimsley and Benjamin W. Ayers, by filing her declaration in debt on the collector’s bond of said Stine, Grimsley and Ayers, the two last being his (Stine’s) securities. The declaration contains three counts. In the first count, the plaintiff complains of the defendants of a plea that they render unto the said plaintiff the sum'of seventy-five thousand dollars, which they owe to and unjustly detain from plaintiff. This count avers that the county court of St. Louis county, on…