M'Broom v. Governor
Supreme Court of Alabama
Debt on bond. This was an action of debt, founded upon a writing obligatory, made by William Me-* Broom, as sheriff of the county of Madison, in the State of Alabama, in his life-time, (who has since died, and whose present administrators de bonis non, Richard B. Purdom and Thomas McBroom, were not sued,) and the defendants, on the fourth day of November, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, — by which said writing obligatory, the said William Mc-Broom, and the said defendants,…
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Debt on bond. This was an action of debt, founded upon a writing obligatory, made by William Me-* Broom, as sheriff of the county of Madison, in the State of Alabama, in his life-time, (who has since died, and whose present administrators de bonis non, Richard B. Purdom and Thomas McBroom, were not sued,) and the defendants, on the fourth day of November, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, — by which said writing obligatory, the said William Mc-Broom, and the said defendants, acknowledged themselves to be bound to Israel Pickens, Governor of the State of Alabama, and his successors in office,…
1Opinion of the CourtGoldthwaite, J.
This action is debt — instituted in the Circuit court of Madison, on a sheriff’s bond, signed by William McBroom, as principal, and the plaintiffs in error, as his sureties.
The breach assigned, is the non-payment of money, collected on a venditioni exponas.
The defendants pleaded four several pleas — the two first of which are substantially the same; and shew the death of William McBroom, in January, one thousand eight hundred,and twenty-eight — administration on his estate in May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and publication thereof as re*41quired by law; and that the claim was…
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