Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co. v. Whitaker

FISHER, Chief Justice.

The appellants, the Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company, James L. La Prelle, Mrs. Mary J. Talbot, Rosa F. La Prelle, joined by her husband, John La Prelle, and Reagan Dickson, a minor, by his guardian, John La Prelle, sued Cyrus Whitaker, as sheriff of Falls County, and the sureties on his official bond, and the sureties upon an indemnity bond, and Meyberg & Rothchild Bros., attaching creditors. The plaintiffs’ action was for damages, the alleged value of certain goods and merchandise that were taken from their possession by the defendants under a writ of attachment in the suit…