State ex rel. Meriwether v. Walford

This was an action on a constable’s bond,, instituted by the State on the relation of James B. Meriwether as administrator of the estate of Ed Thomas, deceased. The appellee Walford was the constable and principal in said bond, and the appellees Oglesby and Lutz were his sureties. The complaint was in two paragraphs. The first alleges in substance that Walford was duly appointed and qualified as a constable for Jeffersonville township, Clark county, Indiana, and executed his official bond in the penal sum of $1,000, with said Oglesby1 and Lutz as his sureties, conditioned among other things…