Snell v. State ex rel. Keller

This was an action by the appellee against Snell, as sheriff of Madison county, and the sureties on his official bond as such sheriff. After alleging the execution of the bond, etc., it is stated that an execution and decree were issued and placed in the hands of the sheriff for collection against the property of the relators; that prior to the 7th day of August, 1868, they had paid on the same the sum of sixteen hundred and forty dollars; and that on that day the sheriff demanded of them the further sum of three hundred and fifty dollars, which he represented as the amount necessary to pay…