Farnsworth v. Coots

Mr. Ooots as sheriff held an execution in favor of Don M. Dickinson and Levi T. Griffin and against Henry "Williams, and it being deemed expedient by the judgment creditors that certain goods in the hands of one Coomer should be seized they gave Mr. Coots their bond of indemnity, in which the plaintiff in error and one Cohen were joined as sureties. Mr. Coots collected the execution out of the goods and paid the amount to Griffin & Dickinson. But Coomer sued him for the property so taken and eventually recovered. An execution being issued to the coroner Mr. Coots employed Mr. Conely to take…