Basset & Haydon v. Bowmar

Judge Marshall

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal is prosecuted by Basset and Haydon, to reverse a judgment of the Henry Circuit Court, dismissing their motion, brought against Bowmar, Sheriff of Woodford county, and his sureties, to recover the amount of an execution in their favor and thirty per centum damages thereon, for a failure to retprn it within the time prescribed by law. The execution was for about $1900, with some interest and costs, in favor of Basset and Hay-don against McConathy and Taylor, and was issued from the Henry Circuit Court, on the 17th of December, 1840,…