J. W. Dowling & Co. v. Bowden

Mitchell, J.:

J. S. Smith, Jr., et al. instituted attachment suits in the circuit court against Dowling & Ooxe. The writs were issued returnable to the then next rule day, and the appellee, who was at the time Sheriff of Du-val county, executed the several writs of attachment placed in his hands by levying them upon and taking into his possession a certain stock of goods, as the property of Dowling & Coxe, but failing to make any return upon the *713writs until two clays after the rule day to which they were made returnable. The goods were, upon petition of attachment creditors of Dowling & Coxe,…