Thompson v. Jackson

I. The defendant T. H. Jackson was a justice of the peace, and C. B. Jackson was a special constable. A judgment for two dollars and seventy-five cents and costs was entered on the docket of said justice against E. B. Thompson,-plaintiff herein, and in favor of one Nolan. Execution was issued on the judgment, and it was served by C. B. Jackson, as special constable, by levying upon and selling certain hay in stack, the property of the defendant in execution. •This action was brought to recover damages of the defendants, on the ground that the judgment was void for want of jurisdiction to…