Gray v. Noonan

The main question presented by the record in this case is, Does an unsatisfied judgment rendered against a sheriff individually for the conversion of personal property seized by him under a writ of attachment, and which is the property of a stranger to the writ, constitute a bar to a subsequent suit upon the same cause of action, brought against the sheriff and his sureties upon his official bond ? This question arises under the following facts: On the 11th of Febru*39ary, 1891, appellee, Daniel Noonan, obtained judgment in the court below against appellant William T. Gray in tbe sum of…