Melba L. Harvey v. American Employers' Insurance Company of Boston, Mass.

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

On November 22, 1955, appellant, plaintiff in execution and the purchaser at sheriff’s sale, filed this suit against the insurer on the bond of N. L. Palmer, sheriff of East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, for the damages 1 allegedly suffered by him from the claimed misfeasance of the sheriff in delaying for nine days to execute the sheriff’s deed and in failing thereafter to evict the defendant in execution, Noel Thomas, and place plaintiff in possession of the property.

As detailed, the claims were: (1) that on August 8, 1955, when the property was seized, the sheriff…