Ballard v. Thomas & Ammon
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a motion in the County court of Grayson, which was removed to the Circuit court of that county, made in June 1862, by Thomas & Ammon, partners, against Robert B. Baker, late sheriff of Grayson county, and J. E. Ballard and several others, his sureties, to recover the sum of four hundred and twenty dollars, the amount levied by the County court of Grayson on the 25th of June 1861, in favor of the plaintiffs, with interest and damages.
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This was a motion in the County court of Grayson, which was removed to the Circuit court of that county, made in June 1862, by Thomas & Ammon, partners, against Robert B. Baker, late sheriff of Grayson county, and J. E. Ballard and several others, his sureties, to recover the sum of four hundred and twenty dollars, the amount levied by the County court of Grayson on the 25th of June 1861, in favor of the plaintiffs, with interest and damages. The notice was not served upon Baker the sheriff, but the case proceeded against the sureties. On the hearing of the motion, on the 24th of September…
1Opinion of the CourtJoynes, J.
This is a motion by Thomas & Ammon against Baker, late sheriff of Grayson county, and his sureties, to recover the sum of $420, levied for them by the County court of said county on the 25th of *18June 1861. At September term 1861, Baker was removed from office for his failure to give a new bond, had been required of him upon the petition of some of his sureties. Judgment was rendered for plaiatiffs, and various errors are assigned in the petition.
The first error assigned is, that there was no proper evidence before the Circuit court that any levy had been laid by the County court. - The ground…
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