Hicks v. Warfield & Co.

The questions in this case arise on a rule against a sheriff for failure to take the statutory bond for property levied on under an attachment for purchase-money. The judge, who tried the rule without the intervention of a jury, made it absolute; and the writ of error challenges the correctness of that judgment. The facts were not in dispute. Briefly stated they are as follows: War-field & Company sued out an attachment for purchase-money and placed it in the hands of the sheriff to be levied. The sheriff made an entry of levy on the property described therein. Subsequently a declaration in…