Bowditch v. Harmon
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort against the sheriff of Plymouth County. Writ dated February 15, 1901. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Mason, C. J., who ordered a verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff alleged exceptions, raising the questions stated by the court.
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
This is an action of tort brought against the defendant .as sheriff of the County of Plymouth for an alleged breach of duty on the part of Charles L. Spring, his deputy, in that Spring wrongly released an attachment of personal property made by him upon a writ in a suit brought by the plaintiff against Harold R. West. At the trial in the Superior Court it appeared that the suit against West was begun July 27, 1900, by a writ of summons and attachment returnable into the Second District Court for the County of Plymouth. The writ was duly put in the hands of .Spring as a deputy sheriff for…
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