State ex rel. Grimes v. Gresham

Blackford, J. —

This was an action of debt, on the relation of Grimes, founded on a sheriff’s bond.

The first breach states that one Stewart, at, &c., recovered judgment against Grimes for 2,259 dollars , and 93 cents, which was a lien on certain lands of Grimes’s '(describing them) worth 50,000 dollars, and that, by virtue of a certain writ of fieri facias, issued on said judgment, the sheriff, Gresham, sold said lands greatly below their value, to-wit, for 1,200 dollars, without having legally advertised the same for sale, &c.

The second breach states that the sheriff made said sale without…