Hellman v. Spielman

This cause arises upon a motion by the plaintiffs in error made in the court below, on notice to the defendant, an ex-sheriff of Platte county, to amerce him for failing to return a writ of execution issued by the clerk of the district court of said county, and directed and delivered to the said defendant while acting as such sheriff.

No answer or pleading of any kind was made or filed by the defendant. The matter was tried to the court, which found that said motion should not be sustained, and that said sheriff is not liable to amercement; and adjudged that said motion be overruled, and said…