Gatzweiler ex rel. Administrator of Adams v. Morgner

This was an action on a bond of indemnity given by the defendant Morgner as principal, and the other defendants as his sureties, to the plaintiff, as sheriff of St. Charles county, requiring him to proceed with the sale of certain goods and chattels levied on under an execution in favor of Morgner against .one Barron, and which were claimed by Adams and Miller, for whose use this suit was brought.

Barron, the defendant in the execution, had been a partner in a store with the claimants, and testified that on the 9th day of September, 1865, he sold out his interest in the partnership goods to…