Weir v. Hum Tong

Plaintiff, the sheriff of Silver Bow county, brought this action to recover on an implied contract of indemnity.

The defendant herein brought an action against Mrs. James Maher to recover a balance on account of rent in the district court of Silver Bow county. A writ of attachment was issued in that action, which was delivered by the attorney for the plaintiff therein to the plaintiff herein as sheriff. Contemporaneously the same attorney delivered to the sheriff a written praecipe directing him as follows, “Attach all of the furniture and furnishings contained in the Metropolitan Hotel,” and…