State ex rel. Alford v. Blanch

— This was an action by the State, on the relation of Thomas G-. Alford, against Willis Blanch, late sheriff of Howard county, and his sureties, Charles Morrow, Nathaniel P. Richmond, Charles E. Hendry, Nathaniel. R. Linsday and Tehee Bindley, upon his official bond. The complaint was in two paragraphs.

The first alleged the recovery of a judgment in the Superior Court of Marion County, on the 5th day of May, 1874, by the relator, against one Ellis Williams and others, and the issuance and delivery of an execution upon such judgment to Blanch, as sheriff as above stated; that, although one…