State ex rel. Chapman v. Lines

Debt against a sheriff and his sureties on his official bond. The bond was conditioned in the usual form for the faithful discharge of his duties as sheriff, &c.

The declaration alleges that one Harwood, at the September term, 1838, recovered a judgment in the Fayette Circuit Court, against one Williams and the relator, for 1,114 dollars, &c.; that a writ of execution was issued on this judgment and delivered to Lines, the sheriff, who levied it on the real estate of the relator; that this writ was returned “no sale for want of bidders;” that a venditioni exponas, founded on said levy, was…