Burkett v. Lehmen-Higginson Grocery Co.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from the District Court of Garfield County; before Jno. L. McAtee, District Judge. Action by Solon Burkett and others against the Lehmen-Higginson Grocery Company, a corporation, to recover $889 paid by the plaintiffs upon a judgment rendered against them, as sureties upon a sheriff’s bond, for the seizure of property under an attachment instituted by the defendant. From a judgment for defendant, the plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by
Tarsney, J.:
On the trial of this cause, plaintiffs in-error, to support the allegations- of their petition, introduced evidence showing that on the 18th day of December, 1893, one G. W. Johnson was the sheriff of Garfield county; that plaintiffs in error, with others, were sureties on the official bond of sáid sheriff; that on said day defendant in error sued out a writ of attachment in a cause then pending in the district court of said county, wherein defendant in error was plaintiff and one W. H. H. Keeney was defendant, and caused said writ to be levied by said…
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