McLendon v. Harrell

Jackson, Chief Justice.

This action was dismissed on demurrer.' The substance of the declaration is that the sheriff, who is plaintiff, was ruled for money — the price of property of a defendant in execution, which was bid off by the defendant, Harrell, and to whom the sheriff made a deed for the property; that he was sent to jail for failure to pay the money over under the rule ; that the defendant was a claimant of the fund which the land brought, and induced the sheriff to believe that he would certainly get the money under superior liens which he held, if the sheriff should be ruled for,…