Shepherd v. Brown
West Virginia Supreme Court
Statement of the case by GreeN, Judge : This was a motion under section 5 of chapter 121 of the Code as amended by chapter 74 of the acts of 1882 for a judgment for so much money, as the plaintiff, Caroline A.. Shep-berd, was entitled to recover by action on a sheriff’s bond of Richard A. Brown, sheriff of Hancock county, executed by him with George Brown, Jonathan Allison, John L. Miller, William A. Jones, David Pugh and Jacob N. Brown, the last of whom had died.
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Statement of the case by GreeN, Judge : This was a motion under section 5 of chapter 121 of the Code as amended by chapter 74 of the acts of 1882 for a judgment for so much money, as the plaintiff, Caroline A.. Shep-berd, was entitled to recover by action on a sheriff’s bond of Richard A. Brown, sheriff of Hancock county, executed by him with George Brown, Jonathan Allison, John L. Miller, William A. Jones, David Pugh and Jacob N. Brown, the last of whom had died. The notice was, that on the 7th day of November, 1883, she would move the Circuit Court of Hancock county for judgment against the…
1Opinion of the Court
G-reeN, Judge :
The case, briefly stated in the notiee, is as follows : An attachment was by order of the Circuit Court of Hancock county issued against the estate of the plaintiff and one Samuel Stewart, and the defendant as sheriff of said county levied the same on certain wheat, oats and corn, the property of the plaintiff, and the party issuing the attachment having attempted to give attachment-bonds, under which the sheriff took possession of said wheat, oats and corn, when he levied the said attachment on August 13th, 1880, the return, which the sheriff made on the attachment, was that…
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