Hooker v. State ex rel. Haynes

— This was an action of debt against Hooker and others on the bond of a justice of the peace. To show a breach of the condition of the bond, the declaration alleges that one Evans obtained a judgment before the justice for a certain sum of money ; that Evans assigned the judgment to the relators on the justice’s docket, of which the justice had notice ; that the judgment-debtor paid the amount of the judgment to the justice ; that the relators, before the commencement of the suit, demanded the money of the justice at his office, and that payment was refused.

The defendants pleaded as follows:…