Bonnabel v. Bouligny

This action is brought against'the sheriff and keeper of the public jail of New Orleans, for having set at liberty a debtor, who had been held to bail at the suit of the plaintiff, and was detained on a charge of fraud under the act of 1840, to abolish imprisonment for debt. After setting forth the indebtedness of the said debtor, one Joshua J. Hall, the petition avers that at the time the plaintiff’s writ of arrest was executed, to wit, on the 9th of May, 1840, the said Hall was already in the custody of defendant under various writs of bail issued against him. That on the 14th of the same…