Champion v. Dunn, Sheriff

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Hobson

Reversing.

Appellant placed in the hands of appellee, as sheriff, of Livingston county, an execution which he collected. He failed to pay over to her $638.94 of the money, and she entered a motion against him under section 1715, Kentucky Statutes, which provides that in such cases the defendant shall he liable to the plaintiff for the debt with interest at 15 per cent, per annum ‘ ‘ and the cost of recovery legal and extraordinary.”. On the hearing of the motion in the circuit court the motion was overruled, but on appeal to this court the judgment was…